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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since then, it's been season after season of outstanding achievement laced with bitter disappointment. Once again, the Islanders are playing in top form, as expected; the question is whether they can keep their act together come playoff time and avoid disasters like Lanny McDonald, whose infamous overtime flick of the wrist ended New York's best season ever with a whimper...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Getting Psyched | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

...act of building, but rather the permission it will grant other architects to build their own monuments of the hybrid. Johnson did not create the way of thinking that his building reflects. But he helped bring it about, and now he has given it a degree of public validity that cannot help affecting other corporate clients. Houses change the secret history of style, but monuments determine its public fate. Can one have a monument to doubt? Perhaps not. The idea would not have arisen 50 years ago. But what else, in a time of transition, questioning, and mannerism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Their Own Thing | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

Other members of bench and bar fear that judges might overdo in their zeal to push a case along. "It's a tough balancing act," says John Frank, co-chairman of the National Conference on Discovery. "You don't want to freeze the issues too soon. Take class actions. Generally speaking, the class has been hurt, but they don't know what happened. All they know is that they've been wronged. So that's all they claim, and then they use discovery to build their case. If you don't have liberal discovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Why Those Big Cases Drag On | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...movie is an adaptation of Simon's Broadway hit, a collection of four one-act plays set in the Beverly Hills Hotel. Rather than film the segments in succession, as Arthur Hiller did in his ill-fated screen version of Simon's Plaza Suite, Ross cuts back and forth among them. The result looks not unlike an episode of ABC's The Love Boat. The approach at least keeps the audience awake. One never knows when Ross will break away from the more tedious subplots to reveal a Simon zinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mixed Doubles | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...classes begin for the new semester, a 37-inch blizzard paralyzes New England. Dean Archie C. Epps III, repeating his famous claim that "Harvard University will close only for an act of God, such as the end of the world," announces the University will remain open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Problems Here | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

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