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From this perspective, a trio of Newsweek cover stories in the past three months seemed to be setting out in a different direction. An April article on poverty in the U.S., with a controversial combination of cover billings ("Reagan's America"; "And the Poor Get Poorer"), was castigated in Newsweek's own pages by Columnist Milton Friedman for giving a "most misleading impression." The following week's cover billed the "final days" of Leonid Brezhnev, and based the story on an unconfirmed report of a stroke supposedly suffered by the Soviet President. Said an upset Newsweek staffer...
...Boulevard, the ornate façde of the Garden Court Apartments stands as a monument to another era when the building's tenants included the likes of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Mack Sennett, John Barrymore and Louis B. Mayer. Sculpted angels still hang from its flanks; a trio of cherubs intertwine arms on the fountain out front; inside, despite a rich cache of old whisky bottles, dusty phonograph records and faded copies of the Los Angeles Times, the palms rise in pleasing arcs around an empty pool in the silent courtyard...
...live in it too-that is the catch, at least for John. They become an odd trio a house of claustrophobia. John soon realizes that he is sharing a situation with his wife, not a life. Though she is desperate for a child, Annie's magnificent obsession and only priority is Helen. John takes to tippling. Tempers flare and caustic words are spoken, especially by Annie, who possesses, as she admits, "a mouthful of boils...
...trio of Stone, Adriana Holy, and freshman sensation Jennifer Goldberg swept almost every dual meet they competed in, and all five Harvard divers placed in the top 16 in the Ivy League. Four of Diving Coach John Walker's charges, including Stone, placed in the Easterns...
Spielberg's heroes, whom he sees as extraordinary, are children. At the emotional center of each new film is a trio of siblings: a teenager, a nine-or ten-year-old boy, a fair-haired preschool girl. To the awful pull of the forlorn or malevolent spirits residing inside the Poltergeist house, each child is differently attuned. The teen-age girl is too involved with growing up to take much notice; the boy, Robbie (Oliver Robins), can be reached only on the frequency of fear; but the five-year-old, Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke), is unaware...