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Someone was whispering in the seat behind me. It was a passionate whisper, "Don't you see? It's the only possible explanation...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Acts of God and Other Co-Conspirators | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

...whisper went on, "You have to believe me. I swear it's true. I saw the satellite photos of the cloud formation. The Weather Bureau would never admit it, but it's impossible to get those kinds of clouds around here at this time of year. It's too cold for them to form naturally. So it had to be an enhanced storm--nukes in the upper atmosphere. That's the only way we could have gotten the blizzard that we did. They had to make...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Acts of God and Other Co-Conspirators | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

...some day occupy a hallowed place in the pantheon of high camp. This isn't your everyday Hollywood boo-boo; the film is downright perverse. For a couple of hours, two of the screen's best actors, John Travolta and Lily Tomlin, walk around overdecorated rooms and whisper sweet nothings to each other. They have sex in a Jacuzzi full of bubble bath. They build sand castles on a Malibu beach. They fondle cute dogs. They say things like: "I don't even know what the word love means any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winter Camp | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

Lisa has cause for worry. Only seven girls can be chosen for the Huntsville twirling line, and competition is tough. Her elder sister Susan was a Huntsville High twirler for two years. But then the unthinkable happened. She failed to make the cut. Friends whisper that she gained too much weight to make the line. It was traumatic. "It affected Susan's image of herself," says Dick Cording, the girls' sympathetic father, who is chairman of the philosophy department at nearby Sam Houston State University. As a result, he says, "we've talked a lot about handling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Twirling to Beat the Band | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Another returning letterman, Chuck Elliott at the number six position, heard barely a whisper from Amherst's Bill Halmi in his 15-8, 15-4, 15-6 victory...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Racquetmen Down Amherst in Opener | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

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