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...Dracula is the definitive male chauvinist pig. He wants to possess," says George Hamilton, who plays the sanguineous count in the movie Love at First Bite. In this comic version of Bram Stoker's 1897 play, Dracula turns up in Manhattan, where he gets mugged on the street, assaulted by an admiring female on the subway and caught in a brownout. Enough, one might say, to make a count go batty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 17, 1978 | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...years old; the first line of its first number is "Sing me a song of social significance." But the difference between what was socially significant in 1937 and in 1978 is so ironically perceptible as to cripple some of the numbers while endowing others with brand-new satirical bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Forty Years On | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...yield "two bits for the average American." Many "average" Americans have found that inflation has sent the price of their property way up; but the real value of the dollars that they collect upon selling it has gone way down. Thus it seems only fair to reduce the tax bite on capital gains. If those taxes are eased, many people who have been holding on to their property may be inclined to sell. Then everybody would benefit: the sellers would pocket profits, on which they would pay taxes, and the Treasury might well wind up with more revenue than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: What Steiger Would Do | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

Finally, the public can recognize that the farmer, too, is victimized by inflation and stop complaining so loudly about the big bite at the meat counter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View: The Cattlemen's Complaint | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

Whenever there has been what Brzezinski calls bite in U.S. policy toward the Russians, he has either proposed or welcomed it. For now, Carter seems to agree with the need for that bite, perhaps because he hears it advocated so often. Brzezinski sees the President from four to ten times a day. There are still no indications that he has tried to freeze out either Secretary of State Cyrus Vance or Defense Secretary Harold Brown. Both have their own private time with the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rapping for Carter's Ear | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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