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Off goes Jack, equipped with a bottle of magic juice that flips him from one world to the other. Some of the authors' imaginings come appealingly to life. The air in the Territories is so clear, for instance, that if someone pulls a radish out of the ground, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Monstrous | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

Mondale may have too much ground to pick up in the next month to pull our Presidential victory, but his surprisingly strong debate performance was not offered in vain. In a campaign reason in which Democrats have had remarkably little to cheer about, Mondale has finally given his party a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fritz Catches Fire | 10/10/1984 | See Source »

The remark may have been ill advised. Nevertheless, even the dullest-witted reporter would have known that it was a joke and its publication could only create mischief.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 1984 | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Almost obsessively, Dixon has doomed the protagonist of most of his stories to repeated and often farcical failures in love. Whether named Mac, Jules or Will, he is conspicuously a loser. Speaking with a strikingly distinctive voice, this hapless character is alternately self-pitying and self-mocking, weepily sentimental and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wimps in Love | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

As the rather dim-witted Paulie, Roberts portrays a man who has never grown up to realize that thieves often get caught and that horses sired by champion studs don't always win races. But what Paulie has, that only his cousin seems to appreciate, is charm Robert's performance...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: The Pope Prevails | 7/3/1984 | See Source »

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