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Only one character outside the family group appears at any length: the temptress in this rural Eden. An outraged father spoils the Miller's teenaged son's romance when he finds the shockingly explicit love poems by Swinburne that young Richard Miller has smuggled to his daughter. Heart-broken, Richard...

Author: By Katherine Ashton, | Title: Idyllic Innocence | 3/14/1980 | See Source »

...a man and a woman, who loved not wisely but too well, both being married people, determined on running away...they were caught and brought back. The Amir, in ordering their punishment, said that, as the man was so fond of the woman, he should have her as completely as...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach, | Title: Welcome to Sunni Afghanistan | 3/5/1980 | See Source »

The film makes good on its ambitions only sporadically. Friedkin is as skilled at capturing the ways of hard-boiled cops as he is at depicting the sweaty haunts of dangerous sex. The film's psychosexual turmoil is heightened still further by the director's linkage of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cop-Out in a Dark Demimonde | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

Why all the excitement in the stodgy old stock market, which has yet to make a really convincing recovery from the disastrous losses that followed the go-go years of the late 1960s? Wall Streeters had no end of bullish answers, but mostly they boiled down to a growing feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bullish Round 1 for Investors | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

President Carter now has the body and face of a far younger man. His running has boiled off even the traces of fat, made his stomach almost concave. His muscles and bones have adjusted to the new physical challenge. The corners show. His face seems square from his jaw to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Portrait of a Man Grown Larger | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

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