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Even when Monsters' stories are predictable and thin, the show is enlivened by grisly good humor. In one episode, two burglar brothers kill an old lady (Imogene Coca) while ransacking her home, but not before she bites one on the hand. The swollen wound soon takes the shape of the dead woman's face, which won't shut up. "It's like in one of them Wolfman movies," cries the cursed fellow. Replies his dim-witted brother: "What, an old lady bites you, and you turn into another old lady?" This weekend Soupy Sales plays a traveling salesman who, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Invasion of The Wild Things | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...think of time as a raging torrent, swollen with the trophies of war, disaster, luck and adventure. Pluck from the current some unidentified floating object. Pass it around. Put it on display. Argue about what it means. That's photojournalism. No one knows exactly when it was born, but it was in the instant some photographer pointed his lens at an event other people wanted to see. Since then, photojournalism has remained the best way of freeze-drying history for further inspection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Icons: The Greatest Images of Photojournalism | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

Fortunately, it wasn't broken, but it was really swollen and had to be heavily taped. I didn't catch in the last game of the season. Coach wanted to rest my thumb so it would heal for the playoffs...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Little League Moments and Fears | 10/24/1989 | See Source »

Bulimics have teeth that are decayed, and sometimes their voices are hoarse, Davis says. Most noticeable of all, she adds, are swollen glands and puffed face...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Living in a Vicious Cycle of Guilt and Shame | 9/28/1989 | See Source »

...City has 7,472 casino hotel rooms, but its housing stock is down by about 15% since 1980. The casinos have created 41,000 new jobs -- more than the city's population -- but the welfare rolls are up, and the number of overnight guests at the Rescue Mission has swollen from an average of 25 in 1976 to 220 today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlantic City, New Jersey Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

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