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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many Americans could be forgiven if they entertained a fantasy from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. Unstuck in time, the character named Billy Pilgrim runs a movie of World War II in his head-backward: "When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: The Moral Question | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

Actually, beginners can use anything that feels snug and offers plenty of ankle support, whether made of leather, plastic or solid gold. Only racers should buy racing boots; for other skiers they have too much forward lean and too high a back, and they could be dangerous. Billy Kidd, former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skiing:The New Lure of a Supersport | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

(Jack Lemmon) flies from Baltimore to the Italian island of Ischia to retrieve the body of vacationing Wendell Armbruster Sr., who has died in an auto wreck. Hardly a promising premise for light romantic comedy, but then Billy Wilder is a director who makes a specialty of unconventional rendezvous.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

Harvard's high scoring 'Local Line' of Billy Corkery. Dave Hynes and Bob McManama will not be allowed to play for the United States national team in next week's World Cup hockey competition according to a ruling by the Ivy League dean's committee on coordination and eligibility.

Author: By William E. Stedman, | Title: Ivy League Bars 3 Crimson Icemen From Competing on World Cup Team | 12/20/1972 | See Source »

BILLY WILDER'S BEST comedies could make you laugh when you saw them and still leave you thinking, if you were to inclined, when you get home. His bawdy farces were popular and funny, even a bit courageous for their time in the moral questions they rained. By the middle...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Realemmon but Sweet | 12/19/1972 | See Source »

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