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Twelve-year-old creamy-skinned, apple-cheeked Regan (Linda Blair), daughter of a famous actress divorcee (Ellen Burstyn) living in the heart of Georgetown society, is possessed mind and body by the devil. Her face grows bloated, crossed by pusfilled lesions; her eyes become cat's orbs that crawl back in her head; her skin swells and turns a swamp color; her hair gets sticky and snaky; her voice comes out the croak of a just-cured male mute; convulsions contort her body and it flips like a wounded crocodile's tail; she drools green gook when...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Screaming Yellow Zombies | 1/25/1974 | See Source »

...actually move across the board. Some seem to leave clouds of debris behind in their travels ("puffer trains") or climb in a diagonal line ("fuses") and give off clusters of "sparks." One of the more unusual shapes to emerge in Life's repertory of patterns is the "Cheshire cat," 1 4. It gradually changes and shrinks until, after six genertions, only the "grin," 15, is left. Finally it reaches a stable pattern: a "paw print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flop of the Century? | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...prose style that combines rich digression with bitter clarity, she told how Stalin played a sadistic game of cat and mouse with her and her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother Russia | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...each morning on the CBS radio network. While his colleagues concentrate on assembling verbal front pages, Osgood searches out items that newspapers are likely to bury. He interviews the teenage girl who got the idea of sending spiders into space via Skylab. He tells of the confession of a cat burglar in Miami who is only seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Osgood Muse | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...tends 25 plants in her room, loves to do needle point, and dotes on her Siamese cat, Chan. All four children feel unusually close to their father. Explains Jack: "He never tried to mold us or direct us. He allowed us room to explore for ourselves, to find ourselves." Exclaims Susan: "He's the perfect father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Life with a Perfect Father | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

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