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...down best with the crowd. The hot-and-heavy numbers are just too perilous. Artist No. 5 knows how to dance, but does the hand gliding down the torso suggest desire or gastrointestinal distress? Artist No. 7 wins points for wearing fishnet stockings, studded belts and a torn, painted neon cape. But for a terrible moment as she writhes on the stage, it looks as if she has got tangled in her costume. Also the sunglasses are crooked. There are no Michael Jackson imitators. You cannot compete with a big-time video, and anyway, the word upstairs is that Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wisconsin: Lip Sync Live, Onstage Tonight | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...spent two years studying with another healer in the Philippines, and now practices his arts in Marin County. A burly, mustachioed man who likes to wear pink oxford-cloth button-down shirts, Schelkun hardly looks like a wizard. "I don't see disease written on a body with flashing neon lights saying 'Here! Here! Here!' " he says. "I place my hands to connect them to their healing source. My hands are able to feel hot spots, cold spots, pain and symptoms of problems in the body. We're not rocks. We're taught in this society to see only reflected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...seedy hack screenwriter in Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius, Christopher Lloyd may have the toughest job of all; the invitation to ham it up is virtually flashed in neon. Cobbled together from three stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the episode is a bit sketchy and disjointed, but Lloyd fills the screen with a funny yet carefully modulated portrait. Watch him try to con a tourist couple by rattling off a list of bogus screenwriting credits, casually mispronouncing Ninotchka. Or, slumped on a couch, lamenting to a friend (Dennis Franz) that he has come up empty on a script the studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tinsel And Truth TALES FROM THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...Valkenburgh said that he and Brian Aviles, his graduate student assistant, have considered making the light "blood red neon--something warm and visceral in the winter...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Frozen Maze Will Grace Quad | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

...land is home to the blue domed, Georgian-style gas station that has a perenially lit neon "Gulf" sign flashing across Massachussetts Ave. into the windows of Lamont Library and the Freshman Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Surveyors Watch Harvard's Gulf Station | 10/20/1987 | See Source »

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