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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Randy McGrorty (Billing) overdevelops. Although his portrayal is uproariously satiric, he effects the level of uproar to an extravagant degree--a degree even satire cannot stomach. Jody Barrett (Hovstadt), while an excellent actress, occasionally applies histrionics and melodrama to cautious scenes, underrating the dramatic ones...

Author: By Donna GAIL Broussard, | Title: A Muddled Interpretation | 12/9/1982 | See Source »

...directing Shaw's Saint Joan came up to me and said, I want you to do this,' and I said, 'Sure.' The first thing I saw in the script was that my character was supposed to be weeping offstage. The muscles contracted in my stomach, and immediately I tried to figure out some way to play the whole thing facing upstage. And then I thought, 'What an ass. I drag my family with only $900 in the bank all the way to Connecticut and then think of all the ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Newman: Verdict on a Superstar | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...retrieved it five months later. Duran, after shivering all his great lightweight career in the shade of Muhammad Ali's shadow, came into the spotlight as if out of a cave and was greeted by an Ali just his size. He rubbed his eyes. Later he rubbed his stomach. When Duran quit in the eighth round of the return match, a Leonard tour de force, nobody could believe either the alibi-the little wolf had wolfed down too much lunch-or the truth: an uncivilized man took a civilized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Everything I've Done Is Unique | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

Some physical disorders appear to be linked to an imbalance of prostaglandins. Too little of a type that regulates gastric acid and protects the stomach lining has a role in the development of ulcers. Too much of a PG that causes uterine contraction may provoke menstrual cramps. Other PGs play a part in arthritis, while leukotrienes, PG-related compounds identified by Samuelsson, are implicated in asthma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sharing the Nobel Prize | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...nightmare, the most routine, innocent action-reaching for a painkiller to relieve a headache, cold or upset stomach, something that Americans do millions of times every day-had become fraught with menace. Suddenly one of the small bonds of unconscious trust that hold society together had snapped: people could not look at the ubiquitous bottles of pills on their medicine shelves in quite the same way again (see ESSAY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder by Remote Control | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

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