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...appears to be a hopeless case, but in the third section of the film, we find him resurrected, perhaps 20 years later, and being worshipped by a group of deformed and grotesque people inside a cave. They have been imprisoned there by the people of a nearby town, so that the townspeople will not have to see the results of generations of incest...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: For A Few Icons More | 12/1/1971 | See Source »

...promised to examine the owners' additional costs "very closely," but coal users are almost certainly in for a hefty jump in the fuel's price-and the nation for one more loop in the wage-price spiral. The fact that it will be due largely to the cave-in of the Pay Board's business members, who are usually regarded as presidential allies, presents Nixon with a challenge almost as troubling as Meany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Labor's Disturbing Challenge | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...been estimated that more than 500 million pages of printed material spew forth each year from United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan. Last week, as a delegation representing Mao Tse-tung's China formally took its place in the great cave of winds known as the General Assembly, it was easy to see why. There were no fewer than 56 welcoming addresses, spinning out for 51 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Peking's Wordy Debut | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...Hefnerian pinup calendar, cave art of barracks and filling stations, has brought a feminist riposte of sorts-the second annual edition of "The Liberated Woman's Appointment Calendar and Field Manual 1972." Compiled by two New York women journalists, the spiral-bound booklet is a compendium of feminist history, humor, sayings and survival lore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Feminist Mystique | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

Died. Roland de Vaux, 67, the French Dominican priest and biblical scholar who was one of those who penetrated the mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls; of a heart attack; in Jerusalem. Two years after a Bedouin shepherd stumbled onto a cave near the Dead Sea in 1947, De Vaux was among a party of archaeologists who journeyed to the spot. There they uncovered more than 40 previously unknown caves, many containing ancient Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic manuscripts. The 2,000-year-old documents, pieced together and edited by an international team of scholars headed by De Vaux, turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 27, 1971 | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

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