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...going to have only himself to thank for his umpteenth Oscar nomination. As the long-suffering Gillian, Andrews provides a sane contrast to the frazzle-dazzle of Lemmon's performance. There is more than mere discipline in her work. Her tart, get-on-with-it Englishness stiffens the spine of her characterization -- and makes the one moment when she gives in to her dread all the more poignant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unsentimental Journey That's Life! | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...other side of the world, along the spine of the Andes in Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, both the lower and middle classes have begun smoking coca paste, a potent and addictive form of cocaine that costs only pennies a cigarette. "These countries have never had a problem like this before," says Manuel Gallardo, chief of the Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Matters. "Their people are getting strung out right and left from all social classes, and the governments don't know what to do." Drug dealers are so high-handed in Colombia that last week they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Crusade | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...drooling and screeching as they try to plant their eggs in their victims. But the director James Cameron creates a more general atmosphere of unrelenting fear--such as a child's fear of losing her newfound mommy--that turns your basic horror-movie shock-rush into two hours of spine-chilling terror...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: A Great Scare | 7/25/1986 | See Source »

...course the movie manages to offend all our senses with enough ethnic humor to give Jesse Helms a shiver up his spine. We get to see the fat, rich sheik. The incompetent and Uncle Tom-like Black prime minister as well as the Island's yellow belly fighting force make a showing. Oh, and I don't want to forget the two Barrys from Long Island and Miami Beach...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Paradise Lost | 7/22/1986 | See Source »

During the five-hour procedure, an Allegheny plastic surgeon detached a latissimus dorsi--a broad muscle that plays a nonessential role in controlling arm motion--from its connection points along the spine. Magovern slipped it into the chest cavity with the muscle's nerve system and major blood supply intact, then wrapped it around Jones' heart like a towel. After a week's recovery time, he began stimulating the transplanted skeletal muscle with a pacemaker, causing it to contract and help pump blood. Less than a year later, Jones reports that she can walk a mile or two without difficulty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stimulus for an Ailing Heart | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

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