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...medical crisis, suffers periodic fits that make him prowl the city, striking down victims with a particularly vicious mountain climber's icepick. Yet here too is caricature--the screenplay never sufficiently explains the root of his troubles, nor why he feels compelled to shave his head, wear a wig, or sleep under a shelf in his walk-in-closet...

Author: By Geoffrey T. Gibbs, | Title: Graceless | 10/31/1980 | See Source »

...worth $7.5 million on the New York wholesale market. The officers also arrested two French chemists, both veterans of the defunct Marseilles laboratories that once were a link in the famed French connection, and the lab's alleged boss, a suspected Mafioso, who was wearing a wig. As it was pulled off, he announced, "Eccomi qui" (Here I am), and then defiantly refused to say another word. Bensinger believes that such raids are at least helping to stem the flow of heroin to the U.S. Said he: "It still is a major problem-more addicts, a drain on society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A New and Deadly Menace | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...present site of the Hasty Pudding Club, the two-story stone building boasted "gable end-s...wrought in battlement fashion," and a "broad chimney on one side, of stone and brick, (which) gave promise of a generous fireplace within." The school's first master, Elijah Corlett, wore a wig and doublet while he taught his pupils--almost exclusively boys looking forward to entering Harvard. The first school moved repeatedly, finally emerging as the Washington School...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Church, State, and Liquor A Social History | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...public image, by and large, is still impeccable. To be sure, there have been exceptions, like the psychiatrist played by Leo G. Carroll in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, who shot his colleague, and the one currently played by Michael Caine in Dressed to Kill, who sports a blond wig and goes after patients with razors. But such methods are unorthodox. The image most people carry of psychiatrists is that of Lee J. Cobb in The Three Faces of Eve -gentle, calm, kind, the sort of person you would entrust with your mother. You remember your mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The People's Analyst | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...piece Olympia Brass Band. Children gawked and grownups dropped their weekend chores to watch. One woman clown clad in green and white greeted a bemused bystander with a blue balloon and a smacking kiss on the cheek. Another clown in a striped T shirt and psychedelic wig paused from time to time to give lawnmowers, car windshields, even a motorcycle policeman's helmet a few flicks with his bright red feather duster. Along the way, the clowns stopped off at two hospitals, a mental institution and a nursing home, where they dispensed balloons and hugs to sad-eyed children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Becoming Fools for Christ | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

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