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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each hour earns them a portion of the profits, and last year students shared $9600. Participants usually work a minimum of two and a half hours a day and attend classes for the rest...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Leiman, | Title: High School Means Business To Students at the Enterprise | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

...subtlety of this work is much better appreciated on the large screen than it is on the small, and for this compilation, Jones has cut pieces from 16 Road Runners together into a seamless super-chase. It is reason enough to attend this movie, but there are others. Among them are two classic Jones-supervised shorts, What's Opera, Doc?, a send-up of Walt Disney's Fantasia in which Bugs Bunny makes a ravishing Brunhilde opposite Elmer Fudd's stalwart Wagnerian hero. In Duck Amuck, Daffy Duck, whose specialty is egocentricity, suffers the indignity of having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magnificent Obsessives | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...book is like an immense issue of the National Enquirer being endlessly explicated until it is forced to yield some truth. Gilmore's story is a sort of immense white-trash saga; he accomplishes his victory even in death by calling down all kinds of electronic gods to attend: photographers, wire services, television networks, and at last even the bardic Mailer. No one else has so well caught the logic by which small creeps become celebrities, even when they entertain us with their doom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doom as Theater | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Council candidates all agreed that the city needs more police protection to combat crime against women on city streets, and most said they favored continuing the city's boycott on spending public funds to attend conventions in states that haven't ratified the Equal Rights Amendment...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Candidates Discuss Affirmative Action | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

...plaintiffs' claim that widespread use of VTRs would cause a decline in actual television viewing. Betamax owners will simply "rearrange" their viewing hours, said Judge Ferguson; they will "play their tapes when there is nothing on television they wish to see and no movie they want to attend." Moreover, the court noted, production of television programs by the plaintiffs, Universal City Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of MCA Inc., and Walt Disney Productions, "is more profitable than it has ever been ... there was no concrete evidence to suggest that the Betamax will change the studios' financial picture." However...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Pandora's Tape | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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