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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told a belated story to New York police. Davis, who lives near the Gravesend Bay site where Stacy Moskowitz was killed, said she was walking her dog Snowball near her apartment at 2:30 a.m. on the night of the murder. A young man "who walked strange, like a cat" approached her on the sidewalk, looked directly into her face, then passed. She said he held his right arm down stiffly, as though he were carrying something partly up his sleeve. Five minutes later she heard shots and the wail of a car horn. Next day, learning of the double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sam Told Me To Do It... Sam Is the Devil | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...accompanying a detachment of French Foreign Legionnaires to Morocco just after World War I. The Legionnaires are assigned to protect a French archaeological expedition against attacks by uppity Arab tribes who seem to think they have a right to their own national treasures. Deneuve is attracted to a roguish cat burglar (Terence Hill), who is seeking refuge in the Legion from the cops. Having already lost a husband and father to war, however, she wants no more entanglements, no more feeling. To spare Hill, she throws herself at the embittered West Point reject (Gene Hackman) who commands the Legionnaires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Instant Late Show | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...remake The Thing from Another World, originally directed by Howard Hawks in 1951, and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), which will star Lily Tomlin this time as an incredible shrinking woman. Even the Disney studios are joining the sci-fi follies with a new kid flick titled The Cat from Outer Space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Star Trips | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

Those galactic apertures are astronomy's latest rage. Cadavers of giant stars far larger than our scrawny sun, they have in effect crushed themselves out of existence after their nuclear fires guttered and died. Only their gravity remains behind, like the Cheshire Cat's mocking grin. No one has yet seen a black hole, since not even a single ray of light can escape the powerful gravitational grasp. But this fact has not deterred imaginative relativity theorists. Refusing to believe that anything can vanish into nothingness, they have argued that when matter drops into a black hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Star Trekking | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...holocaust, some people tried desperately to save their houses on their own. Said Lawyer Ron Cook: "I got on the roof and started hosing it down. We stuck it out until the heat got so bad we couldn't stand it. Then we left with the dog, cat, our daughter and one bag of dirty laundry." By next morning, all that remained of Cook's $100,000 house was a crumbling stone fireplace and a flattened metal garage door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Costly Holocaust | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

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