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Those who can't do, teach. While teaching a writing class at a local college, Donner meets Owen Lift (DeVito), a rumpled, childish lunatic tormented by his mother. In a conversation about how to write an exciting murder mystery, Owen misinterprets Larry's advice and decides that Larry wants to...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: La Dolce DeVito | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

Not even Hans Christian Andersen could invent a presidential candidate as ugly-duckling as Simon: floppy earlobes, horn-rimmed glasses, a putty-like face and a bow tie. Yet the rumble-voiced Illinois Senator has magically emerged as a swan in the Democratic race, partly by playing on his rumpled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Paul Simon: Some of That Old-Time Religion | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

FOR A minute, my heart no longer beating, there is calm, a gap in the excitement as the still motionlessness of the early morning desert thrusts its awkward head in the side door of our mental tree house, a pause, a break--and then the moonface puts his hand on...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: On the Road | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

Sporting hiking boots and a rumpled red flannel shirt, Walter Gilbert '53 looks like a scholar who spends more of his time out of the laboratory than in it. But any time that the maverick. Nobel Laureate spends outside Harvard's ivy walls is more likely to be in the...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Gilbert Plans New Company | 10/15/1987 | See Source »

Two hours before dawn one morning last week, a lanky, bearded young man in a rumpled blue jogging outfit dashed into Beirut's luxurious Summerland Hotel, overlooking the Lebanese coast. "I'm Charles Glass. I need a place to hide!" he fairly shouted to a receptionist. A U.S. television journalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Escape from Beirut | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

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