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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confrontation. Stanley Brand, the lawyer representing the House in the dispute, warned that Gorsuch is on much shakier ground now. "We're not going to take some peekaboo deal," he said. How much more heat is the Ice Queen prepared to take? Said she, with a sweet smile: "Lots of it. I don't melt at the first macho scream, and I'm not melting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Superfund, Supermess | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...bare hands. And I said, 'Hey, who tore up all my wallpaper samples? Who ate all the grapes? The ones I was saving. ' And this guy was sitting there, and I said, 'Hey, pal! What's going on here?'And he had this smile, and when he smiled he had these big white teeth like luxury hotels on the Florida coastline. And when he closed his mouth it looked like a big scar. And I said to myself, 'Holy smokes-looks like some kind of guest-host relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Post-Punk Apocalypse | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...evoked a mood by wearing Dinesen's favorite perfume, Fracas. "It was eerie," she remembers. "The identification was very deep." Almost every line demonstrates an affection tempered by careful attention to detail. As Dinesen went into decline, Thurman reports, "she let down her guard, she relaxed her crooked smile, and her eyes-which she still carefully made up with kohl-seemed to stream with light. There was something almost inhuman about her fragility. . . She was, in fact, dying of malnutrition. After the asparagus season was over she lived exclusively on glasses of fruit and vegetable juice, ampules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Raw Bones, Fire and Patience | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...feelings of the Italian left. But their work is no forced march of socialist stereotypes. Like the characters in the Tavianis' Allonsanfan and Padre Padrone, the people of San Martino never surrender their luxuriant individuality. One young woman with a large birthmark on her cheek and a mischievous smile in her eyes tells a virginal girlfriend: "You don't know what it's like to be ugly and still feel beautiful." An angel-faced teen-age boy, whose ardor for Fascism amounts almost to sexual hysteria, is shot by some of the villagers he tried to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Grisly Bedtime Story | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

After the game, Miami Coach Don Shula could smile and say of Riggins, who had carried the ball 38 times for 166 yds., "He reminded me of a fullback I used to know"; Larry Csonka, of course. "Riggins is one of the best big athletes [6 ft. 2 in., 235 Ibs.] ever to hit the National Football League. Pretty awesome." On a fourth down off-tackle play everyone in the Rose Bowl expected, Riggins crashed the line and ran 43 yds. for the telling touchdown. Earlier there were Washington tricks, the flanker reverse Richard Nixon used to recommend, the flea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sad Season, Glad Super Bowl | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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