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...outside the circle to tag Felice. Slips and collisions. Howls, exaggerated pain. Circle re-forms. Julie: "Huggy-bear two." Kids embrace in pairs. "Huggy-bear five." Kids embrace in clusters of five. Hector to observer: "Love at first sight." This is an elimination game. Last boy pretends to weep with self-pity, moans, "Rejected." Julie again: "Emotional machines." Kids make instant clusters, constructs of their bodies. In a cluster one girl cries; another spanks her; a boy rocks on the floor as he clings to the second girl's leg; another boy pulls that boy's foot. "Too easy," Julie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

This movie is so busy rushing about spending money and amazing us that it has no time for emotion. Nicholas Rowe's Holmes has only seconds to weep for his dead mentor and love interest before tripping off to participate in some or other breathtaking spectacle of modern cinema...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: An Elementary Holmes | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...death. In the long run, if there is one, Charlotte's Web should overshadow any number of manifestos. The story of how Wilbur the pig was saved by the unusual weaving skills of Charlotte the spider has taught countless children, many of them now middle-aged, how to weep and exult at the same moment. Wilbur's tribute to his departed benefactor bears repeating, with a nod to the man who created them both: "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Master of Luminous Prose E.B. White: 1899-1985 | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...other hand, he feels obliged to describe what a stud he is: "In the weekday summer afternoons they would often make love in his parents' bed. Fiona would actually weep in frustration when he fell asleep after reaching his own climax." Is he as sensitive and profound an artist as his songs would suggest, or is he really just out for some action...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Townshend's Horse Fetish | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...crisp single to the opposite field, his trademark for 23 summers, Rose displaces Ty Cobb as baseball' s most prolific hitter. The long- awaited drama has an unexpected poignancy, with the great Cincinnati roughneck in tears amid a sea of cheers. Others still weep for the sport. At the Pittsburgh drug trial, no name is inviolate, not even Willie Mays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page September 23, 1985 Vol. 126 No. 12 | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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