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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Michael York in last year's Hollywood science-fiction fantasy Logan's Run. Now comes Equus, Sidney Lumet's film of the long-running Broadway psychodrama. Jenny, 24, plays a pert stablehand who tries to seduce the troubled young patient of Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Burton). In the film, as on Broadway, that scene is played au naturel, which doesn't bother Jenny, since she considers it "necessary for the story." Says she: "As soon as you start covering up, as soon as you start avoiding the nakedness, it becomes a bit naughty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 5, 1977 | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

Inevitably, there have been accidents in the event's 25-year history. Six people have been killed, including one last week -Burton Bodven, 33, of Franksville, Wis., who died after another plane shirred off the tail of his craft in a mid-air collision. Yet all in all, home-built wings of man have had a relatively good safety record. According to Government estimates, home-built planes that have been legally certified as airworthy have an annual accident rate of 3% per active aircraft-the same as general aviation factory-built planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Big Fly-In at Oshkosh | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

Associate Editor Burton Pines, who wrote our cover story, has had extenisive foreign experiences: he has served as correspondent in Bonn and Saigon, and covered Eastern Europe from Vienna As a writer m New York for the past four years, he has specialized in stories concerning diplomacy and national security. Fourteen correspondents in eleven bureaus around the world supplied Pines with reports on foreign perspectives. The major reporting was done in our Washington bureau: Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden, White House Correspondent Stanley Cloud and Pentagon Correspondent Bruce Nelan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 8, 1977 | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...Exorcist II: The Heretic, Father Richard Burton arrives from the Vatican to search out Pazuzu in Linda's soul, and meanwhile have a religion-science face-off with Psychiatrist Louise Fletcher, who wants to do the job by hypnosis. Pazuzu gets mad as a hornet - or rather as a locust, the guise in which he usually appears. He makes Linda's eyes glow and flings her postpubescent body about like a beanbag. Soon she is back in that bedroom in Georgetown, where Burton tries to rip the heart - literally - out of her possessed alter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pazuzu Rides Again | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...film is between the ludicrous and the unintentionally comic. Locusts swarming over the Capitol dome, an Ethiopian church ceremony that looks like a Coptic version of Regine's, James Earl Jones brooding in locust headdress - the choice moments are many. The question raised by this fiasco is whether Burton is going to go down like John Barrymore, hamming his way through unworthy vehicles that feed off travesties of his talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pazuzu Rides Again | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

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