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Wanda: Give her a little credit, Ralph. She's funny, and she has a knack for relaxing all those troubled people out there. She told one couple to go to a motel to refresh their sex life. The woman called back later to report that nothing had happened, and Ruth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: The Munchkin of the Bedroom | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

Obviously the sight of this marvelous physical specimen cavorting through the jungles in a series of brutally effective, strikingly photographed action scenes is a big part of the movie's appeal, regardless of ideology. Rambo has echoes of half a dozen movie heroes of old, from Tarzan to Shane, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Outbreak of Rambomania | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

Pedro had the rough, callused hands of a seasoned laborer, Stammer remembered, but he was also a person of some refinement. He enjoyed having her play the piano for him, and he liked reading books on history and philosophy, metaphysics and chemistry. Among his favorites was The Decline of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches the Mengele Mystery | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

It happens exactly the way the song says it should. Some enchanted evening Charley Partanna sees a stranger across a crowded room and somehow he knows, he knows even then, that he must see her again and again. As in any good romance, that turns out to be more easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Taking the Loyalty Oaf Prizzi's Honor | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

The book publishers and authors won the final encounter last week when the U.S. Supreme Court held 6 to 3 that the Nation magazine had committed publishing "piracy" by quoting too liberally from a "purloined" copy of Gerald Ford's memoirs, A Time to Heal. But the majority opinion, written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: When a Scoop Is Piracy | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

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