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...that the big Christmas films have made their mint, each of these former reliables tiptoes into town with a new movie designed not to stir a sensation but to fill booking dates. Pryor's film, Moving, is a comedy about a mass-transit engineer who loses his job, relocates to the Idaho ruburbs and declares war on his "neighbor from hell" (Randy Quaid). Among the cast are < Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey, SCTV's Dave Thomas and the World Wrestling Federation's King Kong Bundy. Behind the camera is Alan Metter, who directed Rodney Dangerfield's 1986 hit Back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nights of The Falling Stars | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...fine sauce, with a touch of burn and two touches of subtelty. If it were an orchestra, though, I'd tell this sauce to add some drums and trumpets. I imagine ginger and garlic as the culinary instruments. I would try to retain the expert, greaseless stir-frying...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: The Painted Dish | 1/15/1988 | See Source »

...site was chosen to reduce unemployment andto stir growth in a highly depressed community,"said Eraklis in response to claims made byopponents that the site was chosen because theasbestos deposits made it less expensive...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Scots Upset By Harvard Docs' Plan | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

...paintings created a stir last summer when Wyeth revealed that he had been working with the model in secret for 15 years. He sold the works for $10 million and received national media attention unusual for an American artist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MFA Exhibits Helgas; 107 Wyeth Paintings | 10/27/1987 | See Source »

...government of Corazon Aquino, Columnist Luis Beltran of the daily Philippine Star has always been a gadfly. Last year he caused a stir by accusing a top Aquino aide of leaking vital state papers. Last week Beltran wrote that during the failed military mutiny in August "the President hid under her bed . . . perhaps the first commander in chief of the armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Politics Makes Strange Beds | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

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