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...energy crisis no longer seems absurd. Heat itself has regained its elemental magic, and keeping warm has become a tribal obsession. The season of Great Cold approaches. Scrape flesh from animal skins. Gather food. Drag tree limbs from the forest and pile them inside the mouth of the cave. Recite incantations. Make fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...focus at which the computer technicians, the toy manufacturers and the games theorists seem likeliest to meet. Computer boffins at Manhattan's Rockefeller University play a game called Hunt the Wumpus, in which the Ph.D. devouring Wumpus is hunted through the perils of a 20-room cave. Computer language is flat and unresonant, and Hunt the Wumpus lacks a certain dash. But a toymaker may say, "Give me a way to display a Wumpus! Make him buzz and light up!" and next Christmas everyone may be going into debt to buy an expensive, electronic Wumpus Wars. By then, civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

BOSTON UNIVERSITY is beginning to cave in on its president, John R. Silber. Groups of both professors and students have called for his dismissal, and more than 500 professors from neighboring colleges--including Harvard--have pledged to withhold administrative courtesies from B.U. until Silber is removed as president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire Silber | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

...buried himself. . .The cave of his skull furs with nonsense. Pan, fade, dissolve. That is how it happens every night...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The Meaning of a Missing Sock | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

...high work. They doubled for actors and assisted cameramen who were lashed to precarious ledges. Everyone was ferried up by helicopters borrowed from an Army Reserve unit, and most of the crew worked 14-hour days over a period of six weeks. Several chose to remain overnight in a cave on the rock face. "There was one guy who was like a human fly," marvels Captain Richard Dominy, the commander of the copter unit. "He liked it so much up there he didn't want to come down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Fire and Ice a Mile High | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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