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...chairs from the Kennedy-Nixon debate; Hubert Humphrey campaign cookies; Tom Seaver's college baseball uniform; waxed flowers from President Garfield's funeral; L.B.J FOR PRESIDENT lollipops in the shape of Texas; a swatch of material from the Red Baron's plane wing; a "Mr. Bones" skeleton puppet used in a vaudeville show; Jimmy Carter's hymn book from Plains, Ga.; and a tie box full of old gallstones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning the Nation's Attic | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...bulldozer to cover the sounds of what was to come, the squad rushed quickly to the second-floor apartment of Emanuela Frascella, 21, a history student at the University of Venice and a Red Brigades terrorist. One commando opened the steel-reinforced door of the apartment with a skeleton key, and his colleagues burst inside. In the hallway they encountered Giovanni Ciucci, 32, a Red Brigades member, who had heard the key turn in the lock and was rushing, pistol in hand, to investigate. Before he had a chance to fire, one of the leatherheads knocked him flat with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Police! Marvelous! | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...second drawing is of a bright orange skeleton with tears in its eyes and a grim mouth in an open frown. "I drew this after the death of my mother. I ate leaves then. That is why there is a tree in the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Embracing the Executioner | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...actors pause after a punch line for laughs that may never come. The pirouetting narrative (from Francis Veber's script for the French film A Pain in the A-) is occasionally incredible. Wasted in flaccid supporting roles are the comic gifts of Paula Prentiss and the decadent-skeleton face of Klaus Kinski. Some of the jokes and targets have lost their currency ("Prema ture ejaculation means always having to say you're sorry"? Hippies? Slow-witted chicanos?). But if Wilder's antique vehicle is no more than serviceable, it is ever at the service of two meticulous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The O.D. Couple | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...majority of victims are elderly women, most of whom suffer from osteoporosis, a progressive thinning of the bones that can leave the skeleton too brittle to withstand even minimal stress. Indeed the bones of the spine can become so papery that they collapse; five vertebrae may fill the space normally occupied by three, causing a protuberance known as "dowager's hump." Says Eleanore Bennink, 73. of Southgate, Mich.: "I was 5 ft. 3 in. when it started. Now I'm 4 ft. 10 in. The pain was horrendous." The condition is prevalent among older women because their frames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Building Up Brittle Bones | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

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