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...latest epic by Robert Ludlum (The Matarese Circle) manages to top, if not topple, Carlos. The central character of his The Bourne Identity (Marek; 523 pages; $12.95) is an amnesiac, the result of a botched attempt on his life. From a microphotograph surgically implanted in his body, he finds the address of a bank in Zurich, an account that yields him more than $5 million, and a name: Jason Charles Bourne. As bloody memories and deadly skills return, Bourne discovers that he is a trained and instinctive killer, code-named Cain, quite possibly the match of Carlos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terrorists Take Over the Thrillers | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...consequences which has given Simon a particular hold on the fantasies of his prevailingly middleclass, middle-aged audiences. Mar vin (Jack Weston) has come West to celebrate the bar mitzvah of his nephew and been given the surprise present of a blonde hooker (Leslie Easterbrook). After a night of amnesiac pleasure, Mar vin wakes to find this houri, a vodka overachiever, comatose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Simon in the Sun | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

...that a woman who underwent a hysterectomy years ago suddenly becomes a mother; nor has it been unknown for a man to marry his sister, revealed years before to have been his father's illegitimate child. Days of Our Lives writers literally abandoned Dr. Tom's eldest son, an amnesiac who lusted openly but unknowingly after his sister Marie, finally driving her to a nunnery. Then he went upstairs to bed. That was more than two years ago. Last month he came downstairs. Days' cast expected him to say: "What's for breakfast? I'm famished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sex and Suffering in the Afternoon | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...more obscure "Amnesiac," the last few lines become a vicious, lingering taunt...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: The White Heat of Plath's Voice | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...every buyer is a musical amnesiac. Gamesplayers, for example, might have their own use for Parsons' manual. What do the following songs have in common: Beautiful Dreamer, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Summertime, Easter Parade, You're the Top, and Yes, We Have No Bananas'? In Parsons' code they all share the opening signature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Name That Tune | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

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