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...going to continue a column for the Washington Post, and a second book is already under way. Remar seems to be getting off on some other delights too. A few days ago, I watched him in the culmination of the year, the ultimate version of what he calls his Swoon Walks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: The Rebuilding of Remar Sutton | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...sing with Stan came along last year, he leaped for it. "I've always liked this music. I knew I could do it." And indeed he can. Using arrangements that were surefire lady-killers 40 years ago, Lupi can work a room, provoking now and then the odd swoon. Should have heard him on I'll Be Around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: From Molars to Moonglow | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...fans have watched enough late-season collapses to imagine their team in a swoon to rival 1978's as soon as Clemens loses again. But those who don't believe now will in October when the BoSox to Shea Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sox Fans: Ya Gotta Believe | 8/12/1986 | See Source »

...this splendid craftsmanship, popular moviemaking at its best, is in the service of building rooting interest in the story of a woman who keeps finding ways to transcend the limits that unexamined custom often imposes on her sex. In action pictures, women are supposed to swoon or retreat to a safe corner (or, at best, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition) while the male lead protects them and defends Western civilization as we know it. In Aliens, it is the guys who are all out of action at the climax and Ripley who is in a death duel with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Help! They're Back! | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

Aside from averting the June swoon, the biggest story in Boston is the arrival, from vastly different trajectories, of two of the best pitchers ever to wear the Red Sox uniform: Roger Clemens, 23, and Tom Seaver, 41. Last week, two days after being traded from the Chicago White Sox, Seaver made his first start for Boston, labored mightily against the Blue Jays, and hung on to win, 9-7; it was his first victory since April 23. The next night Clemens pitched ( superbly against the same Jays, giving up three hits and striking out eight, but lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Terrific and the Pheenom | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

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