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...lonely boy in a matriarchal family in a near idyllic small town meets a gentle, otherworldly creature who becomes his charge and his protector. But these comparisons are mainly for exegetes and archaeologists, for by mid-film Author Chris Columbus and Director Joe Dante have spun Gremlins off its smooth E. T. rails and launched it into the fetid backwaters of fantasyland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creature Comforts and Discomforts | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...wasn't always smooth shaving for Papalimberis and his crew. When he owned his shop in Central Square, a bar was right next door. One night, remembers Papalimberis, a drunk marine came from the bar and demanded George give him a shave. George complied, sat his customer in a chair and promptly threw hot towels over his face. The marine fell asleep and after he woke up. Papalimberis told him that he had been shaved. The drunkard paid George and came back the next day (drunk again) demanding a shave...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Clipping Hair in Harvard Square | 5/23/1984 | See Source »

...more." Well, there is one thing: "I would like to have been able to do very good golf. I love the game." The hoofer-duffer may not be the pro on the fairway that he wants to be, but it is inconceivable that his swing could be anything but smooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 21, 1984 | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

DIED. Jack Barry, 66, smooth founding father, producer and host of TV game shows, whose many creations included Concentration, The Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough; of a heart attack; in New York City. By 1958 he had four popular quiz shows on TV, among them the superhit Twenty One, with $129,000 Winner Charles Van Doren. Then investigations revealed Van Doren and other contestants had been coached. The resulting scandal wiped quiz shows, and Barry, off the air for years until he came back from near penury with Joker and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 14, 1984 | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...desperation, Massachusetts resorted to isolating a player one on one at the point during the remaining minutes of the game. But a Bergman save and a smooth clear allowed the Crimson to run down the clock till Pujols scored the last of his three goals with 18 seconds left for the 10-7 Harvard...

Author: By Mark Mead, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Tips Top-Ranked Minutemen; Bergman's 22 Saves Enliven Defense | 4/26/1984 | See Source »

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