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...distinctively Woody Allen's quality that he doesn't say these things; he limits himself to lighter moods. Conscious that his comedy doesn't do justice to the world around him, he won't permit himself to generalize. The airs of Yacowar's flimsy elevated prose exactly betray this caution. Yacowar has written a worthwhile book about Hitchcock's British Films - we need books about Hitchcock, since it's dismally current for people to think of him as 'the master of suspense,' the public property, grand and genial. Most film criticism tends to be dull, especially the kind which tries...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Academia Meets The Loser | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

...week, Washington was awash in speculation that the President would soon take military action against Iran. But U.S. policymakers insisted that the rumors were untrue. General David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, repeatedly counseled caution; so, too, did the normally hawkish Brzezinski. Said a high Administration official: "Nobody but nobody believes the hostages can be saved with an air strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm over the Shah | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Nearly everyone who has ever worked with him says the same thing, sometimes with less admiration than Jaffe. Hoffman, 42, is known in Hollywood as the archetypical difficult actor. But for all those critics Hoffman has a word of caution. "They should think twice before they rail against me," he told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "They may have done their best work with me. I'm like that clocker who is always saying, 'Come on! Come on! Come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Father Finds His Son | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...given to 19 airports (the only one in the U.S. is Los Angeles International). Among the reasons for the Mexico City airport's low rating are deficiencies in electronic navigational aids and landing equipment. Moreover, a standard map of the airport distributed to pilots carries this warning: "CAUTION: Street lights approximately one mile north of ... Runway 23-L may be mistaken for runway lights in conditions of low visibility." Gilbert was reading a copy of the map on the way down. And, at the time of the crash, both runways were in fact blanketed by ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Crash of the Night Owl | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Looking back, Peterson admits his alarmist views "were never justified." Most professors concur, but nevertheless believe if they had it to do over, they would have moved with the same caution. The Faculty members at the time recoiled from the dangers of what Peterson calls a "precipitous merger," contending that Harvard was not "prepared" for the allegedly grandiose reversals in University tides...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Merger? What Merger? | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

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