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...leprechaun sphinx in the role of a wily New York City police commissioner. Only Elizabeth McGovern seems out of tune and time. She plays Evelyn Nesbit as the daffily dumb prototype for every bombshell from Marilyn to Bo-cheeks puffed, eyes glazed, tripping through life in a sweet stupor. She weighs the film down before Rollins & Co. have the chance to make it soar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: One More Sad Song | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...truth is I'm really not from Yale," you begin, and before your Cantab residency may be fully explained, she is gone, for good. Which leaves you, in the throes of your drunken stupor, already beginning to forget Beth's favorite New Haven hangouts, with a moral: Before you leave Cambridge, you must either resolve to concede losing a weekend battle in The Rivalry or to find out for yourself what to do at Yale...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, SPECIAL TO THE WHAT IS TO BE DONE | Title: Weekend Odyssey in New Haven | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...what it is to succumb to an insurmountable day mare-a whoresome lethargy-an indisposition to do anything-a total deadness and distaste-a suspension of vitality-an indifference to locality-a numb soporifical goodfornothingness-an ossification all over-an oyster-like insensibility to the passing events-a mind stupor-a brawny defiance to the needles of a thrusting-in conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Secret Life of the Common Cold | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...kind of a stupor, another world," Cey said two days later, grateful for a rainout and extra time to shake his dizziness. "I feel extremely fortunate to be standing here." On the first pitch, sporting a new earflap on his batting helmet, Cey lashed a single and later dribbled another before leaving with a light head and a .350 average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beating the New York Jinx | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...good as the music is, the lyrics only matter on the second, ballad side, whereas ten years ago, "Sympathy for the Devil," "Satisfaction," "Gimme Shelter," while quick, all had something to say. The Kinks' Ray Davies, on the other hand, starting to recover from a decade's drunken stupor, has never been so lyrically biting. Give the People What They Want works on many levels; the fast songs reflect the harried mood of Davies' self-destructive persona--"Yoyo" delineates the internal discombobulation of a typical businessman. In "Destroyer," Davies rips off his own famous "All Day and All Night" guitar...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: The Demons of Pseudo-Euro-Disco; Jeffreys, Hunter, Kinks & Stones Redux | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

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