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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is enough honesty of a similar quality throughout the picture to keep any not too critical adult going through any matinee. Combine that with the pleasant lyricism of its skating scenes and you have the movie equivalent of a Judy Blume novel for teenagers: something you need not be ashamed to offer a kid and that you may find yourself more interested in than you would have suspected as you glance over her shoulder. - Richard Schickel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love in Blume | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Author Flannery O'Connor spent most of her adult life with her mother on a dairy farm just outside Milledgeville, Ga., up the road a piece from Macon and a middling way from Atlanta. Her isolation there began involuntarily. At 25 she was already a noteworthy Southern expatriate and a prizewinning graduate of the University of Iowa's School for Writers. She had put in time at Yaddo, an artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., along with luminous fellow guests like Robert Lowell. She had settled down in the Connecticut household of Poet Robert Fitzgerald, his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Letters off Flannery O'Connor | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Women who never truly separate from their mothers are likely to re-create the mother-daughter antagonism in adult relationships. Freeman, in her confessional book, says that she repeatedly projected her mother problems onto the men in her life: "I was still trying to earn my mother's love−any way I could." Comments Cambridge Psychoanalyst Gregory Rochlin: "Many women know they are in a struggle but not that it's displaced from Mother onto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Remembering Mama Too Much | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...probation officer supervising adult females. About 90% of these probationers are themselves products of unwanted, unplanned pregnancies. As their lives have become more desperate, laden with social and criminal problems, no "right to lifers" are there to help them pick up the pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1979 | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...Adult Health Clinics Riverside Clinic 5 Callender Street...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Keeping Neighborhoods Healthy | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

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