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...Stanton, with his haunted, pinched face and chirruping alibis, steals the show--or, rather, is awarded it by default. And Randy Quaid, as a gentleman caller, is a perfect audience surrogate: decent, dogged, perplexed by a family squabble that admits no strangers to its terrible embrace. The door clangs shut, and we are outside. --By Richard Corliss
...listener, who had once confused the word amenities with the word accessories in a conversation with a car dealer in Manhattan, only to be scolded, "You want amenities, try Eighth Avenue!" keeps his mouth shut. "Now we're airborne," Martin is saying...
...going to throw a championship out the window trying to discipline a guy like that." At one point this season there was some question whether Ditka and McMahon were even talking. "That's ridiculous," Ditka said. "Just the other day I told him on the sidelines, 'Shut up.' " But when the Rams game fell on a blowy day at Soldier Field, Ditka trusted McMahon to come out throwing to his breezy receivers like Willie Gault, the track star, and Dennis McKinnon, the football player. On the other hand, when Ditka dispatched a draw play in the third quarter, McMahon snorted...
Trouble may also occur because the lenses are worn at night. With eyes shut and lenses in place, says Doughman, the oxygen supply to the cornea may be reduced enough so that, in some cases, the corneal cells are damaged, thus making the eye vulnerable to attack by bacteria...
Will County, Ill., last week closed its forest preserves until it can get a new liability policy on them--if that can be done at all--and Blue Lake, Calif. (pop. 1,200), has shut its skating rink, parks and tennis court. Hundreds of other towns in California and in New York State are "going bare." That is, they simply cannot get liability insurance...