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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help with most of them because he never knew their names. He does recall Robert Piest: he was thrown in the river, and his body has not been found. Gacy-whose confession, if true, would make him the worst mass murderer in U.S. history-is now strapped into a bed at the hospital in the Cook County jail. Before the police came, he had bedecked his home with colored lights. They shone throughout Christmas, until last week when somebody finally turned them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Do Rotten, Horrible Things | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...Shah were replaced by a fundamentalist Shi'ite government eager to cut back on his modernization schemes, the subsequent reduction in Iranian exports would push prices even higher, with the result, in the view of one oil expert, that "we'd all fall out of bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Shah Compromises | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

Italian Director Lina Wertmuller's first English-language picture went by a title so long that some moviegoers could not finish lip reading it: The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain. It also suffered from an insurmountable problem: for the first time American audiences could understand what Wertmuller was saying. Warner Bros., which had plans to finance two other Wertmuller pictures, quietly changed its mind and gave her a map of Rome. One of the few movies able to quell the mind-numbing trend was Paul Mazursky's marvelous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bottom-Line Time in Hollywood | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga, Wife Irene wept in bed after she had been raped by her husband. The next morning, Husband Soames ate breakfast comforted by the thought that "no one would know-it was not the sort of thing that she would speak about." Besides he had but prevented his wife "from abandoning her duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Against a Wife's Will? | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

When Travolta joins her in bed, he seems to be making love to a mirror image of himself. There is no erotic chemistry whatever, but the romantic trysts do reinforce the guiding spirit behind the movie. For those who toil in the never-never land of camp, heterosexuality is still the biggest joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winter Camp | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

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