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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other sophisticated arms. Employing classic hide-and-seek guerrilla tactics, the "boys," as they are affectionately called by the villagers who harbor them, have achieved control over much of the countryside. On occasion they have even left the bush to strike in Salisbury: a year ago, a raiding party blew up a gasoline depot, destroying a month's supply of fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Boys in the Bush | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...long time, back in their early days, the four received a great deal of notoriety for smashing their instruments at the end of each performance. It was, at first, a flashy, frightening and finally exhilarating thing to see. Drummer Keith Moon blew up his drum kit, and Townshend rammed the neck of his guitar into his amp, while Daltrey slammed his microphone against the stage and Entwistle held tight to his bass, playing stubbornly on like a shipwreck's lone survivor trying to keep dry in a leaking lifeboat. There was too much discussion about how all this was rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...COULD have been glorious. But after ten years of waiting, five years of planning, three years of production and over $40 million of spending, the motion picture interpretation of the Star Trek television series is worse than an anti-climax: in essence, they blew...

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber, | Title: Not Very Enterprising | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

...third day of the week-long journey, which led Justin and his guide Kamik from the settlement of Nanook to the village of Hooka, a typical Christmastime squall blew off MacInnis Bay. Visibility shrunk to zero and the two men could hardly see each other...

Author: By Larry Grafstein, | Title: In the Arctic, You Are Not Alone | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...makes it inevitable. Her role in The Seduction of Joe Tynan as the other woman, having an affair with a married U.S. Senator, also placed her in an uneven struggle for audience sympathy. Many would argue that Meryl won hands down. Recalls Co-Star Alan Alda: "When she blew Tynan a kiss at the airport after their affair, that was Meryl's own inspiration. It was her way of conveying that she didn't get what she wanted, but she was taking life on her own terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Mother Finds Herself | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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