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...gets lessons in precision ecstasy from handy Dennis Quaid. A Barkin heroine will tussle with any man on even terms, perhaps to the death. In Mary Lambert's gorgeous, complex ghost story Siesta, Barkin is already dead, but that cannot stop her from a convulsive rendezvous with the aerialist of her dreams. Or from looking sensational in a stop-light red dress and a body sculpted by daily workouts. These two films, though, were cult objects for cinephiles and discriminating voyeurs. It took Sea of Love, which earned $40 million in its four weeks, to make her a pricey Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Barkin Up the Right Tree | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Having just finished another run into Boston, this one to the Sheraton, Arthur, once again, heads back towards Harvard. Pausing at a stop-light, he takes the wad of bills from his tee-shirt pocket and begins to count. "That brings me up to almost $120. Jesus, some guys'll sit around at Harvard all night. They'll go up to North Cambridge, and they'll only pull in about $50. Like, I wouldn't go up to anyone tonight and tell him how much I've made, 'cause it would cause a stink...

Author: By Jay Woodruff, | Title: Taxi Driver: Tales of a Nocturnal Veteran | 10/8/1980 | See Source »

Jubilee stay-at-homes can still get in a little dancing tonight at 8:30 o'clock, when the Wesley Foundation of the Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church holds its May Day Dance. The church is on Massachusetts Avenue at the first stop-light north of the Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News in Brief | 5/1/1948 | See Source »

...suggested theme for local laundries might be, "Why go elsewhere and wait? Leave your laundry here." ... Maybe I should be a little kinder to the laundrymen hereabouts for now they are nice enough to send me my buttons back ... Does your Dad need a former khaki shirt now a stop-light red for his V Garden scarecrow? ... I could let him have the one I just got back real cheap. I don't know when I could wear it unless I began selling cocoa coals on street corners...

Author: By M. O. P., | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

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