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...film's wild pungency. He is ably abetted by a cast of vet actors and a few odd-jobbers like Rock Star Elvis Costello, who has a funny turn as the stage-frighted magician with a dead rabbit under his top hat. The rabbit is the only stiff in this fine time at the movies. And Bleasdale is the best thing to come out of Liverpool since John, Paul, George and Ringo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Liverpool After the Beatles | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...Denver crisis illustrated some of the snarls that have entangled parts of the airline industry -- and especially People Express -- in the stiff competitive environment that People did so much to create. The revolutionary . discount airline could no longer afford to operate Frontier, which it had bought only last November, since the Denver-based subsidiary was dropping an estimated $10 million monthly. Even after the shutdown, People was losing about $1 million a day as a result of its ownership of Frontier, and in the view of many analysts, is being kept alive largely on the $46.7 million from United. Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Competition | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...minutes. Their 100-gal. on-board water supply is laced with sulfa powder and penicillin to ward off scours, the dread hog diarrhea. Each year the company holds a contest among employees to name the racers. Samples from this year's roster: Hamtastic, Leaping Loin, Chop Sooee, Boared Stiff, Charlie Choplin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porcine Pacers: Pig races pack 'em in | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...over me" to drop U.S.F.L. coverage. But Arledge countered under oath that he had said no such thing. Trump testified that Rozelle had promised him a franchise if he agreed not to sue. But Rozelle testified that Trump had begged him for a franchise, promising to "find some stiff" to buy the Generals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sacked! | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...Dick) and the sexual cannibals of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer, which so seized her imagination that, she says, "my parents were afraid I'd try to eat someone on the beach." In fact, her mother had a deeper fear: "From the moment she was born I was scared stiff she'd turn to acting." Not at first. But there was an irrepressible flair for the dramatic. At 14, Susan read The Great Gatsby and dubbed herself Sigourney (after the unseen aunt of Gatsby's sleek-snob lady friend Jordan Baker). "I was so tall," Weaver declares, "and Susan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Years of Living Splendidly | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

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