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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was in 1946. He had reached the top and although he would go on to skillfully edit James Jones' From Here to Eternity and Alan Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country in the remaining 15 months of his life, he knew his great achievements lay behind him--he would be remembered for his discovery of Fitzgerald, his faith in the young Hemingway and his exhausting work with Thomas Wolfe...

Author: By Payne L. Templeton, | Title: The Editor of Genius | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Faeries, Brian Fraud and Alan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Still, Carter's veto of the bill meant a split with his party allies on Capitol Hill: Speaker Tip O'Neill, House Majority Leader James Wright, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Majority Whip Alan Cranston. When Carter spurned them, they were resentful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hey, You Hear That Vote? | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS Directed by Alan Parker Screenplay by Oliver Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ugly Trip | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...Fonda's Bree Daniels, the call-girl who is the object of a shadowy killer, involves us so totally that the girl-in-the-abandoned-warehouse routine at the end doesn't even appear schematic (well, it does, but we're still scared to death). You gotta credit Alan J. Pakula though, who here, as in All the President's Men and the Parallax View, conveys the someone-is-always-watching-you motif with incomparable creepiness. Donald Sutherland is an intelligent, if pallid detective, but the protagonist is Jane all the way, the frustrated hooker trapped by the emotional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fonda in Shadow | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

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