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...editor of Commentary and hitman of the double-domed Right, dance wickedly on the grave of one of Edie's ancestors. Recall the night that Rock Star Jim Morrison paid sexual obeisance to Jimi Hendrix on the stage of Steve Paul's nightclub, the Scene. Watch Warhol shrug as a woman invades his Factory, takes out a pistol and shoots a hole through the foreheads of seven stacked Marilyn Monroe portraits-just a few years before Andy himself would be shot by another female intruder. Gobble gobble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Edie: The Extraterrestrial | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

...wrist and barks: "You have herpes, don't you?" "If her pulse jumps, she has it," he says. "If she doesn't, she just laughs." Sometimes, of course, a woman is offended by his personalized lie-detector test. "I lose a few women that way," he says with a shrug, "but at least I don't have herpes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Scarlet Letter | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...cheerful-looking man in rumpled pants and a short-sleeved shirt who during the school year directs the student orchestra at the State University of New York at Albany. As the rehearsal gets under way, he is asked how his 83 players are doing. He gives a "Who knows?" shrug, like a man who knows very well indeed, and grins happily. "Listen tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York State: Culture's Front Porch | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...sentiment, or lack of it, is common in the business. As one eminent three-year-old after another fell apart this spring - Deputy Minister, Stalwart, Lets Dont Fight, et al. - the horsemen's reaction was generally to shrug and say, "This is racing." But the fans tend more to be of the Black Beauty school of horse lovers, and the anthropomorphizing before the 108th Derby was fierce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Strewn with Broken Hearts | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

...Israeli invasion is what about," you he said. want to Then a talk shrug, suggesting that to him an Israeli invasion was just another event, like the sun rising. "We would rather talk peace. But they say we of the P.L.O. are terrorists, so we must fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Can Make Them Pay | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

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