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...forest outside my window in New Jersey, and at night the trees had silhouettes of arms and heads and tentacles. I liked being scared. It was very stimulating. In my films I celebrate the imagination as a tool of great creation and a device for the ultimate scream, and even as a kid I liked pushing myself to the brink of terror and then pulling back. In the morning I was the bravest guy -- little seven-year-old Steven walking around the closet, or talking to the trees, saying, "I'm not afraid of you." But once night fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Autobiography of Peter Pan | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...into the closet. They wanted to see it, and they didn't want to see it. But one by one they would slowly open the door and go in. When they were inside I put a plug in the wall and the skull would light up and they would scream, and eventually I would let them out. It's amazing that they even grew up. It's amazing that I grew up and they didn't kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Autobiography of Peter Pan | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...punches as often as punch lines. The creator of Doonesbury once led readers on a comic tour through Ronald Reagan's brain and lanced House Speaker Tip O'Neill for protecting Congressmen who were chummy with South Korean lobbyists. Last month a sequence ridiculing the antiabortion documentary The Silent Scream so worried the Universal Press Syndicate, Doonesbury's distributor, that the artist agreed to withdraw it. Trudeau was back in the headlines (and his strip briefly out of several papers) last week for giving a black eye to Ol' Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Ol' Black Eyes Doonesbury Vs. v Sinatra | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

Education Director-General Eliezer Shmueli believes so strongly in the coexistence course that it has been made part of the regular school curriculum. "We don't have all the answers," Shmueli says, "but let us discuss, scream, shout, and let us get to know each other." That has been precisely the effect of the civics program, as exemplified by a three-day trip last month by Arab students to the town of Sderot, where they stayed with Jewish families. "We feel comfortable enough with one another to speak openly," says Revital Levy, 17, about her new Arab friends. "I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Classes in Coexistence | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...eight times that much in resulting fees. That kind of return, added to last week's Supreme Court decision, bodes ill for those already tired of listening to lawyer pitchmen. "The only way to sell legal ads," warns Auerbach, "is to beat the clients over the head so they scream your name in their sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Less Dignity, More Hustle | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

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