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...record label, Apple Corps., Ltd. Porterfield, who had written a TIME cover story on the group the year before, was again struck by Lennon's patience and courtesy. Three years later, Porterfield sat in Apple's London headquarters listening to Lennon speak with bitterness about the breakup of the Beatles. Says he: "John was thinner than the last time I had seen him and his appearance gave an extra intensity to the harshness of what he was saying. He was understandably preoccupied with pain and frustration, but there was also a great deal of determination and optimism...
...Steve heads toward Los Angeles, where hey know how to do bittersweet by the numbers: No. 1, the rise to the summit via award-winning ads. No. 2, the beautiful wife whose wealthy parents are so assimilated they mispronounce the Yiddishisms sprinkled through their dialogue. No. 3, the breakup of family and business. No. 4, the search for roots back in New York, where Steve attempts a few foul shots at his past life. There are some affecting moments in The Old Neighborhood, but ultimately this scenario-sized volume seems as out of place on paper as its hero...
...debris and numerous satellites, including the largest moon in the solar system. Still, many questions remain. What are Saturn's rings made of? Can they be traced back to the solar system's origin 4.6 billion years ago, or did they evolve later from the breakup of passing objects captured by Saturn's gravity...
...microscope, waiting patiently for his subjects to squirm to life. He does not argue or judge; he observes and classifies. In 13 years he has made but five films, each dissecting the lives of the French working class at a crisis point: the onset of adolescence, the breakup of a marriage, the end of a life. His best film, The Mouth Agape (1974), traced a woman's slow, painful death and its effect on her husband and her son. The film was slow and painful, and almost heroic in its unflinching compassion. Now, in Loulou, Pialat tells the story...
DIED. Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, 63, former Pakistani military strongman who presided over the 1971 breakup of Pakistan and the country's humiliating defeat in war by India; of an internal hemorrhage; in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Yahya seized power in 1969, while commander in chief of the armed forces, promising a quick return to democratic rule. But when East Pakistan's Sheik Mujibur Rahman won the 1970 national election and demanded broad autonomy for the long neglected eastern wing of the country, Yahya refused to yield power; Sheik Mujibur was arrested and civil war broke out. Yahya...