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...examines Steve and diagnoses acute schizophrenia. Nash asks the father about mental illness elsewhere in the family, and Stanley opines that ex-Wife Nowell "is a bit mad." He explains, "Her sense of other people's not good. They can be sweet to her, and they can be foul to her, and that's about as much scope as they've got." The doctor puts another question: "Would you say, would you assent to the proposition that all women are mad?" Stanley replies, "Yes. No, not all. There are exceptions, naturally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roughing Up the Gentle Sex Stanley and the Women | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...overlooks an opportunity to plant a false rumor. While grieving last week over the death of Samantha Smith, the American girl who visited the U.S.S.R. on a peace mission at the invitation of Yuri Andropov in 1983, the Soviet media hinted that her plane crashed as a result of foul play. No lie is too big: the news agency TASS blithely reported last October that the Pentagon was poisoning the Amazon River. The Soviets still regularly use forgeries to discredit the U.S. Last July the Soviet press published a letter to Chile's President Augusto Pinochet, purportedly from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great War of Words | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...towel, his wallet, police identification, a badge. Then Wiley's girlfriend Judy Easter reported that the chief told her the day before his disappearance he intended to buy a bathing suit at K mart and go swimming with an unnamed out-of-town visitor. The possibilities seemed ugly. Drowning? Foul play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanishing Act: Chief Wiley, meet Judge Crater | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...even funny when he did it in his early movies like Foul Play and Seems Like Old Times. But it may have been only because Goldie Hawn was there to hold...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Vacate the Premises | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

Getting drowned out by music and noise of the many occupational hazards that street performers endure. They must contend with bored audiences, policemen checking permits, weather turning foul, malfunctioning amplifiers and popping strings...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Popping Strings For Profit | 7/23/1985 | See Source »

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