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...shaped like a battered Idaho potato (or, as NASA scientists variously had it, a "hamburger patty" or a mouse-gnawed "hockey puck"). Tethys, closer in, is scarred by a huge crater more than a third as wide as the satellite's own 670-mile diameter, and by a canyon that extends at least two-thirds of the way around it. Apparently the moon was struck by a huge object and badly cracked, but the pieces froze together again like chunks of reformed ice cubes. And why is the strange moon lapetus ten times darker on one side than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Flying Rings Around Saturn | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

PIERS ANTHONY WEYMOUTH, also known as Lord Wedgwood, the 26-year-old scion of the English china dynasty, is touring America. He comes not to take "snaps" of the Grand Canyon or the skyline of New York, he comes to promote trade and commerce in the 'colonies,' a 200-year-old tradition in his family. One of Wedgwood's former local customers had been Benjamin Franklin; in Pier's few more...

Author: By Cynthia A. Bell, | Title: Lord Wedgwood the Potter | 7/28/1981 | See Source »

...have laughed five years ago. It would have been like going to a funeral and laughing." For a long time, Clark could not joke about Viet Nam. As a second lieutenant in the infantry, he "found war" in 1971, during the 72-day incursion into Laos known as Dewey Canyon II. Of the 35 men who set out with him in his platoon, only eleven returned. Clark later went through the familiar agony of nightmares and flashbacks. "There were times when I was hell to live with," he recalls. "In 1975, when they had all those TV specials on Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Forgotten Warriors | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...Academy Award for The Sting, admits that she was using cocaine heavily while producing that other-worldly movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Hers is a terrifying odyssey from the front lines of the movie business to a retreat behind the white walls of her Benedict Canyon home. She is one of the few celebrities who will talk with candor about a close encounter of the worst kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Some Close Encounters | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...demand for material and change the structure of film making." Redford is convinced that "with the cable market opening up, we need a larger supply of film makers, a wider range of options." To this end, he has established the Sundance Institute of Film and Video in Provo Canyon, Utah, which holds its first session this June. Says Redford: "I'm hoping that our program will help people realize you don't have to go into the mainstream in order to survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Hollywood: Dead or Alive? | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

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