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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Davies' mother had a personal experience of Jesus-who talked to her when she was polishing the brass-Davies at first set out to be a lawyer. He switched to his present vocation only after working his way through the philosophical skepticism of the logical positivists rampant at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: American Preaching: A Dying Art? | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Those who do not yet know about her soon will. Hollywood tom-toms are all but nominating her for an Academy Award for her first screen role, in The Rose. The movie, the story of a doomed '60s rock star, is one of the few commercial hits of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Those are the clean jokes-just about all of them. Most of the others range from very dirty to dirtier still, and all of them are quite funny. She does not take them seriously, and neither does the audience. She giggles instead of leers, and there is no feeling, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Most of all she laughs at herself. At 34, she is not a pretty woman, but she turns even that to advantage. Some of her jokes are about her ample breasts: "Two of the reasons why I did not become a ballerina." A couple are about the rest of her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

There in a colorless London house lives George Smiley, Master Spy (ret.). Resolutely out of style, fat as the Michelin tire man, he has long been cuckolded by his wife and betrayed by close associates. It is tune the old cold warrior hung up his spites. Not Smiley. Once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Act for the Circus Master | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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