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...White House last week said that the costlier House version would be "unacceptable." While differences on the bill could be worked out in a congressional conference committee, its chances of being passed again by the House are slim. Said Simpson: "If we toss this one on the trash heap, no politician is going to stick his tootsies in the fire on this baby for another ten or 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigration: Too Hot to Handle | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...however, somewhat problematic. Morris Day and his sidekick--ex-roadie, ex-football-player Jerome Benton--are hilarious as a self-caricaturingly "sharp" twosome, complete with Abbott and Costello routines. They enjoy dressing up, abusing women--in one of the first scenes they dump a troublesome one into a trash can--and being generally vicious. The Kid spends his time dressing up (though in spike-heeled white boots rather than two-tone shoes), mistreating women, and being generally misunderstood and abusive. Quite a contrast...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maijala, | Title: Singing in the Rain | 7/31/1984 | See Source »

...wimps. Here's this ten-year-old called Bastian, played by Barret Oliver, who's so weak he can't even screw the lid off a Welch's grape-jelly jar. Three bullies from school beat him up and make him jump in a trash bin. A total loser. Then he goes up into the school attic and starts reading this book, and it sort of pulls him into the Land of Fantasia. I mean, he's the one who controls the gate of the people in the book. And they are really weird people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nice Movies for Nice Children | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

Then he flies back into real life on the dragon's back and scares those three little bullies right into the old trash bin! So what's the moral? Get literate and get revenge? That's "nonviolent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nice Movies for Nice Children | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

...prefer writing about yourself to digging up the trash of your predecessors, Creative Writing S-20, "Autobiography," may be in store for you. It promises to "explore how details gleaned from both memory and observation can bridge the gap between reality and fiction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stop and Shop | 6/24/1984 | See Source »

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