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...land-wonderful tales of his home and his school, his parents and especially his friends-and making them shine like new. So every night he would tiptoe outside his ranch-style house and make a wish on the brightest star in the suburban sky. Over and over he would whisper, "Help me tell the story...
...malevolent spirits that infiltrate the home of an ordinary California family. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, which he devised and directed, tells of a creature from outer space who is mistakenly abandoned on earth and befriended by three school-age children. "Poltergeist is a scream," Spielberg says. "E.T. is a whisper." The first film means to thrill, the second to enthrall. Both succeed beyond anyone's expectations, perhaps even those of their prodigious creator. They re-establish the movie screen as a magic lantern, where science plays tricks on the eye as an artist enters the heart and nervous system...
...younger sisters, Steven would take the standard boy's revenge: lock them in the closet and then throw in the thing they feared most. "He used to scare the hell out of them," Leah says. "When they were going to sleep, he would creep under their window and whisper, 'I'm the moon!' " But the fraternal bogeyman was also a small festival of phobias. "My biggest fear was a clown doll," he says. "Also the tree I could see outside my room. Also anything that might be under the bed or in the closet. Also Dragnet...
Torsiglier admits River House aquatic superiority but says. "Anytime the River House secretaries want to give me night-mares they whisper, 'crew, women's crew. B crew, out then again, our talents lie elsewhere. We'll hold our own in softball and volleyball...
...Tardencillas spoke, the Foggy bottom p.r. squad couldn't help but whisper anxiously in the back of the briefing room and give their uncooperative guerrilla dirty looks. Afterwards, chief spokesman Dean Fischer tried to laugh the whole thing off, acknowledging. "You win some, and you lose some. "But what the Reagan Administration is losing quickly is any chance of convincing anyone that we should have faith in current U.S. policy toward Central America...