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...occurrences. Credibility is dissipated when he remembers "being terrified as a little boy by an appearance of Mr. Peanut" and evaporates when he speaks of tarot cards and the riddle of the sphinx. Strieber lobbies for understanding between humans and aliens: "two universes spinning each other together . . . the old weaver of reality rethreading creation's loom." The last time anyone dispensed such advice was on The Twilight Zone, where it belonged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bookends Lovely Me: the Life of Jacqueline Susann | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

Snowball: Sigourney Weaver, Aliens. Think about it. Think about what this nomination says about the taste and integrity of Academy members. Think about a screaming baby alien exploding out of Weaver's chest halfway through her acceptance speech: "I'd like to thank my parents, and my high school elocution teacher, and...Oh, excuse me, I must have gas...What the...Oh, my God!...SQUEEEEA...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: And the Envelope, Please | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...tottering example of long-term marital pathology. Peter and Muriel have not touched each other in ten years; Charlie is a night-after-night drunk; Gwen is restive in the presence of her ineffectual husband. These people find their routines interrupted by the return of Alun and Rhiannon Weaver, friends from their youth who have decided to move back home. Alun has made a name for himself in England as a televised authority on the land of his birth ("I peddle Wales to the Saxons"). For her part, Rhiannon comes back to find two old flames still stirred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: About Time THE OLD DEVILS | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

ALIENS Tall, wondrous Sigourney Weaver battles tall, terrible monsters in James Cameron's technically awesome blend of the horror, sci-fi and service- comedy genres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Best of '86: Cinema | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...other students subsequently hung bannersbearing a variety of anti-apartheid messages,including "Tyranny Reigns When Good People DoNothing" and "Death to Apartheid." Weaver, amember of the ROTC, hung an American flag. Schoolofficials removed the banners almost immmediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Loses Student Suit; Court Says Banners Stay | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

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