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...before the movie was released last Friday. This is serious business. So is the movie, a short-circuited psychodrama that grafts snazzy performance footage onto the fictive fever chart of an angst-ridden musician called The Kid and played by Prince himself. The movie has been pulling down real tub-thumper reviews, the sort of hot-seat hype that gives some indication of the way Prince can generate fever and keep the temperature high...
...Darryl Van Home has settled in at one of Eastwick's eeriest old houses. Updike drops devilishly loud hints about who Van Home really is. Alexandra thinks of him as the "dark prince" and recognizes "his diabolical arts." When the witches join him in his oversize steamy teak tub for the first of a series of baths and orgies, Darryl asks, "You kids think this is hot? I set the thermostat 20° higher when it's just...
...from the band, and Hynde last saw him at Honeyman-Scott's funeral. "He was terribly bitter and resentful. He felt like 'You fired me, but Jim's the one who died from drugs.' Ten months later," she adds, "Pete had drowned in the bath-tub with a needle sticking out of his arm." No stranger to indulgence herself ("I used to take any kind of drug, whatever was going on, but I always kept it in check"), Hynde had begun to pull back by then. "I started drinking less, and I started to look less...
...George Nelson, 33, who has a doctorate in astronomy, will buckle himself into a manned maneuvering unit (MMU), the jet-powered Buck Rogers contraption that enabled astronauts to make the historic, untethered space walk on Challenger's February flight. Mission Specialist James van Hoften, 39, a onetime hot-tub salesman with a Ph.D. in hydraulic engineering, will act as an emergency backup...
Mondale was suddenly deriding Hart as if Hart were Reagan and not a kindred Democrat. The former Vice President accused his opponent of declining to fight for the nuclear freeze. Mondale made a tub-thumping speech in Tampa suggesting that Hart is for "Big Oil" and "the hospital lobby," that he "attacks entitlements" and that he would force "working families to pay more taxes." (At a 1979 Senate campaign fund raiser for Hart, Mondale had extravagantly praised the Coloradan. "Gary Hart is one of the most decent and compassionate public servants I have ever known in my life...