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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true; you knew it. Three years ago everyone was listening to ELO and Jimmy Buffett and all of a sudden there was this guy Elvis Costello singing about the end of the world. Elvis became, like his eponym, the King of Rock and Roll, only now they didn't call it rock and roll, they called it the New Wave. Because it was new--that was what made it great, that somehow from this extraordinarily restricted and limited form, when all the possibilities seemed exhausted, these lunatic geniuses brought forth the rock and roll Lazarus...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Ban the Bombers | 9/18/1979 | See Source »

Nobody who knows anything about how our Government operates will believe that it is possible for our President to get the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and director of the Central Intelligence Agency onto a conference call in the 15 minutes that he has to make a decision, much less issue an order that then travels down the line of command in the 15 minutes. So the only way is by delegating the authority down to some field commander, who must be given the discretion that when he thinks a nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Kissinger on NATO | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...voice. British tabloids have been filled with lurid accounts of his grisly deeds. Streetwalkers in the Ripper's favorite stalking grounds have been advised to remain indoors, and, to the chagrin of their customers, some are taking the advice. One thing is all but certain: the Ripper will call again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Striking Again | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...returned my orange sweater." Obviously the commonplace events of the film have an intense and personal meaning for her. Some of this intensity is conveyed to the viewer, some is lost. The film offers a sense of the strong, often mysterious flow that when it is finished, we call a life. Yet in the end the viewer feels that Kurys has held back important information, that she has used technique to disguise the fact that there are depths to her characters that she herself, perhaps, does not understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Small Events | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Even before Yale won the Sprints, the Elis seemed the crew to beat. They were simply too big. At an average of 6 ft., 4 in., they were, in that repellant crew expression, "Gawds." When assembled in the tiny strip of fiberglass that oarsmen call boats, churning their oars with savage efficiency...well, they couldn't lose...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: That Ol' Thames River Magic--Again | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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