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According to Phoenix Police Detective Richard Fuqua, the men then drove 50 miles to an isolated desert area and hurled Suzanne off a cliff. They heard her moaning and climbed down to her side. She pleaded with them to leave her alone because, she said, "I'm dying anyway." The response was swift. "Damn right you are," one of the men said, and picked up a large rock and crushed her head to still her sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curse of Violent Crime | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...time of inflation, Tesich and his director Peter Yates must be accused of squandering valuable resources. Christopher Plummer, as an activist diplomat, gets to display little more than his profile; and James Woods, who could become the most engaging villain since the young Cliff Robertson, has again been cast in a part that must have been written for Bruce Dern. The sympathetic viewer will want to rescue Hurt and Weaver, not from the bad guys, but from the mechanism of this eyewitless plot. The canny movie producer will want to recast them as the Tracy and Hepburn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Single-Minded | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...more." Manhattan Economic Consultant Alan Greenspan, who is also a member of Reagan's new Economic Policy Advisory Board, pointed out that towering interest rates are threatening the survival of many American financial institutions. Said he: "A continuation of business as usual will lead us off a cliff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Reagan's Plan Work? | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

Plunkett and the Raiders have Mark Van Eeghen and Kenny King in the backfield, two steady runners to complement an explosive passing game which includes Raymond Chester, Bob Chandler (Fred Biletnikoff incarnate) and Cliff Branch...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Blue-Gray Classic With a Crimson Tint | 1/23/1981 | See Source »

...huge TV audience agree to play along? Ken Kercheval (J.R.'s luckless adversary Cliff Barnes) may have the answer: "The audience wants to know but they love not knowing." In the past few weeks newspapers have spread the latest Dallas trivia across their front pages. Las Vegas bookies have offered daily odds on the culprit (in the final line, Kristin was the favorite). Pundits have made merry speculating on the identity of the gunperson: Columnist Art Buchwald fingered David Brinkley because the scheduling of his NBC Magazine opposite J.R. had driven Brinkley to the bottom of the ratings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Now It Can Be Told: Shedunit | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

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