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...America, full moon's coming. That's when a wily psychopath -- a werewolf of modern paranoid fantasies -- turns some idyllic suburban home into a slaughterhouse. And when anyone wanders too close, the psycho (Tom Noonan) festers into action. A tabloid journalist (Stephen Lang) ends up flambeed in a runaway wheelchair. A photo-lab technician (Joan Allen), whose blindness has not inhibited her taste for sexual adventure, invites the psycho home and is soon in mortal peril. His only nemesis is Will Graham (William L. Petersen), an ex-FBI agent who uses a kind of Method forensics to identify with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: No Slumming in Summertime | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and the murder of U.S. Tourist Leon Klinghoffer out of sympathy for their youth and the plight of the Palestinians. Though the prosecution sought a life sentence for Youssef Majed al Molqi, 23, who was accused of killing the wheelchair-bound Klinghoffer, the court sentenced him to 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism a Tale of Two Bombings | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

GENOA, Italy--Fugitive Palestinian guerrilla leader Mohammed Abbas and five followers were convicted yesterday of hijacking the Achille Lauro cruise ship and killing a wheelchair-bound American passenger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abbas Gets Life for Hijack, Murder | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

...summarizes the morning papers. Cuomo dissects everything that is written about him. Each morning he does 17 minutes of yoga, therapy for his bad back. His official day begins when he rides to his second-floor office in the ornate elevator built to accommodate Governor Franklin Roosevelt's wheelchair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Make of Mario | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

That law required the University to embark on a three-year transition plan that would bring it into compliance. Following the government order, each building was surveyed by a specially appointed planning committee. Surveyors examined each building with architectural plans in hand, accompanied by a student in a wheelchair...

Author: By Alan Z. Segal, | Title: Meeting the Needs of Disabled Students | 5/14/1986 | See Source »

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