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...flavored medicine to a full figure corset almost escape our conscious notice. A Bloodsmoor Romance, although packed with laughs and adventure cannot be read quickly and its prodigious length barely serves to tie up all the loose ends. Not many apparently light contemporary novels leave the reader feeling so punch drunk...

Author: By Cira Simon, | Title: There and Back Again | 9/30/1982 | See Source »

...some 200 customers of New York's Chemical Bank, the tedious chore of checking their balances or paying their bills no longer means standing in line at the neighborhood branch office. Instead, they simply switch on their Atari home computers, telephone a special Chemical Bank number, punch in some secret password codes and numbers into their machines and conduct all their banking business from their living rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Finance in an Electronic Age | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

...last-minute Easter-like recovery conveniently leaves the door open for a sequel, can we expect to see the little alien in his next adventure merrily waddling along the surface of some suburban swimming pool, or turning Elliot's bedtime glass of water into something with a little more punch...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: J.C., Phone Home | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

PERHAPS IT WAS the provocative tilt of her head, or the perfect pouting lips. Her lovely oval eyes were large and not quite innocent. Smooth skin, smooth, elegant neck, all framed by soft auburn hair. Something--no, actually everything--about Catherine Oxenberg made a guy gulp for air or punch his roommate in frustration...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Pictures of Catherine | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...exuberantly drunk on Thunderbird wine. As it turned out, Mary Etta was not at home that night, and big Sy Jackson, looped and annoyed, kicked in her door. That brought the police, who, says Sy, proceeded to beat up on him in the patrol car. One cop threw a punch, Sy ducked, the cop hit his partner, Sy ran. When Sy was caught, he was beaten up some more. The charge was second-degree assault. On his lawyer's advice, Sy pleaded guilty and was committed to the Elmira Correctional Facility. So began his tour of New York State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait of a Prisoner | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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