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Fans were nervous as the 1929 high school football season was about to start. Over the previous six years, the boys on the team, the “Tigers,” tore through the opposition so easily that soon a new nic...

The Communist interrogator touched the pistol on his belt. “You lie!” he screamed. “Go back to your cell and think!” Dick Applegate didn’t know what he was supposed to say, but he was sure if he didn’...

"Meet the Applegates" is yet another attempt to find humor behind the facade of middle-class suburbia, by revealing that a normal family is secretly bizarre. For some reasons these movies almost always center around eating habits. In "Parents" the parents ate human flesh, in "Mermaids" Mom prepared marshmallow kebabs, and in "Edward Scissorhands" the hero had lots of trouble picking up his food. Now we have a family of insects in human form. "Clean up...