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...movies and in the headlines, but none has quite matched a certain sylvan sequence in On Golden Pond. She stands on the edge of a dock in Squam Lake, N.H., her body firm and svelte, her skin as burnished as an Indian totem, her bikini two bright tattoos. A shiver or two later, she has backflipped off the dock and sliced into the cold water. As sentimental drama, the moment is effective; as cinema, it is unremarkable; as a display of new-fashioned star quality, it is radiant. But, oh, the ruckus it raised, as the movie reeled surprisingly toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: On Golden Fonda | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

...drives me to Oakland with a cigarette dangling on his lip," she reportedly said. "And he has a history of drugs," she reportedly added with a shiver of delight...

Author: By Charles R. Burress, | Title: The Problem With Us | 7/6/1982 | See Source »

...steadying aid of his 19-year-old son Steve, who caddied and read his putts. Hogan got to the chilling point where he could scarcely draw the putter blade back. "I've seen Ben smoke a whole cigarette over a 6-ft. putt," said Snead with a shiver. "Once you get the 'yips,' you never lose them." For almost ten years now Sam has been putting "sidesaddle." Literally and figuratively, he is the only great player who ever faced up to the yips. As unseemly as it is to be putting like a gondolier, Snead said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Still Suited to a Tee | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...actors. He has every reason to be. In both pictures, the children are natural and winning. As the mother in Poltergeist, Jobeth Williams, who Spielberg predicts could some day be on a par with Jill Clayburgh, creates a surprisingly rounded character. She gives the movie audience an electrifying shiver the moment her character feels Carol Anne's spirit moving through her body. In E.T., Dee Wallace has some quietly affecting scenes as Elliott's mother, who cannot quite hide from her children the ache of loneliness at her husband's desertion. In Spielberg's previous features...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Steve's Summer Magic | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

About once a month, though, the juice glasses at Jerry's Restaurant on San Felipe Road rattle in the rack, and the forest of real estate signs on San Benito Street shiver at the crest of a quake scoring 3 or more on the Richter scale. When a 5.9 quake snaked through town in August 1979, Tricia Brem was in labor at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital; her bed rolled across the room and slammed into the opposite wall. During the same quake, Store Owner Fernando Gonzalez watched $30,000 worth of liquor somersault from his shelves. Gonzalez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Tremors on the Fault | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

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