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...again. Choking with emotion, he went on: "All these children of God, under bleak and lifeless mounds, the plainness of which does not even hint at the unspeakable acts that created them. Here they lie, never to hope, never to pray, never to live, never to heal, never to laugh, never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paying Homage to History | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...their beliefs. During a visit to Berkeley, Shoemaker had roundly blasted the Nemesis idea, so Alvarez took him to a Chinese restaurant for a further discussion of Muller's model. After dinner, Alvarez cracked open his fortune cookie, pulled out the paper strip, glanced at it and, suppressing a laugh, handed it to Shoemaker. It read: "The star of riches is shining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs? | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...their most sublime pas de deux (Never Gonna Dance, from Swing Time). And yet, in Alice Adams, A Place in the Sun and Giant, he displayed an affinity for ambitious outsiders with their noses pressed against the frosted window of the American dream. Maddeningly meticulous, he could earn a laugh by simply waiting out the punch line; but his obsession with visual detail finally led him down narrative blind alleys. By the end he was making not great movies but pretty pictures. In that failing he was hardly unique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Real People in a Reel Peephole | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...laugh at the claim made by the lawyer of one of Goetz's alleged victims: "Give me $5" was a request, not a demand made of Goetz. Yeah, sure. Brian O'Neill Hamden, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 29, 1985 | 4/29/1985 | See Source »

...three and one-half hours of all of this. Generally well-choreographed, often amusing, absurdly comic, emotionally unencumbering, less tedious than its length suggests, it has that same cheeky appeal as Duchamp's "Mona Lisa" or a bust of George Washington with a tinted-blue Mohawk: it makes us laugh well enough but makes us feel nothing...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Just Not To Be | 4/26/1985 | See Source »

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