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...shot live, and it has a gritty spontaneity that would probably send most of today's TV directors into years of deep analysis. Gleason hated rehearsals, and often the lines were improvised. When he could not remember what he was supposed to say, he would pat his stomach, which was his way of signaling the other actors to say something--anything. Once he even forgot he was supposed to be onstage, leaving Carney all by himself for something like three minutes. Carney went to the icebox--it was an icebox, not a refrigerator --and, with ruffles and flourishes, pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: How Sweet It Is, Again | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...almost acoustic texture of the Smiths, minus the stomach-churning unhappiness makes Lloyd Cole and the Commotions the most appealing band to burst stateside this year. Four young Scotsman and a transplanted Man-chesterian owned a year and a half age and quickly won a recording contract from Polydor...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Aural Fixations | 5/10/1985 | See Source »

Welch was unable to play yesterday with a stomach infection, and with a huge hole in the Harvard defense the Minutemen wasted time in taking advantage...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: UMass Mauls Laxmen; Murphy Rules, 13-7 | 4/25/1985 | See Source »

...human guinea pig. He will be subjected to tests designed to increase understanding of space motion sickness, an affliction suffered by about half the people who go into orbit. In one of the "gastric motility" experiments, stethoscopic microphones were strapped to the Senator's midsection to record his stomach noises at takeoff (NASA has yet to release a tape of the senatorial rumblings). Said Garn: "I am hopeful that I can fill in a few of the pieces of the puzzle in the medical department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jake Skywalker: A Senator boards the shuttle | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...thrift holiday cut some 500,000 Ohio depositors off from a total of $4 billion in savings. "The longer this goes on, the scareder I am," said Mary Lou Dehler of Cincinnati, who with her husband Richard, a retired postal worker, had accounts in Molitor Loan & Building. "My stomach just rolls over. They have got my whole life in that bank." The financial suffering in Ohio rattled consumers across the U.S. and worried foreign investors as well. In a classic sign of anxiety, moneymen bid up the price of gold by $35.70 last Tuesday, to $339 an ounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting a Stop to a Stampede | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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