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...there projected another mass of bone. It protruded from the mouth like a pink stump, turning the upper lip inside out and making of the mouth a mere slobbering aperture . . . The back was horrible, because from it hung, as far down as the middle of the thigh, huge, sack-like masses of flesh covered by the same loathsome cauliflower skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sweet Ogre | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...sack pushed the line of scrimmage back to the Harvard 28, taking the Crusaders out of placekicker Matt Michaud's field goal range--his subsequent 45-yd. attempt fell far short, dying at the 7-yd. line...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Crimson Hangs on to Edge Holy Cross | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

Langston reacts to those situations the way you would expect: he laughs them off. Comedy is his bag and the bag is his comedy and as his alter ego might put it, sack-cess is just around the corner. "Let's face it," he says, "right now people are coming to see the Unknown Comic and not Murray Langston, but that should change soon." Then, having given his prediction, Murray Langston walks up a flight of stairs, across the long hotel lobby and seems to disappear in the crowd...

Author: By Bill Braunstein, | Title: THE UNKNOWN COMIC | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...countries is that those other countries have decided that they prefer oil to order. The absence of sanctuaries in the modern world must be of general help as well. He who would mow down an archbishop saying Mass in a chapel in San Salvador (or storm a mosque, or sack an embassy) would hardly hesitate to invade Bethesda. The public heart recoils at such goings-on, but briefly. Before Mr. Tabatabai's murder, someone suggested to his neighbors, the Milks, that they paint a purple arrow on their garage, with the message: "The Milks live here-Tabatabai lives over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Wars of Assassination | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...judge hung his hat in ruling that the film is not obscene on the political leg. I would have hoped he'd have hung his hat on the other legs," A. Alan Friedberg, president of Sack Theaters, which leased the theater for the film's screening, said yesterday...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Professors Testify in 'Caligula' Case | 8/5/1980 | See Source »

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