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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Her gestures were minimal, her expressions were mercurial, delicate yet powerful in their capacity to affect the emotions. If there was, finally, something unsettling about the way she continued to play nymphets until she was well over 30, it was a tribute to her mimetic gifts that she did so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Golden Girl, Lost Lady | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

From San Francisco's pioneering Ghirardelli Square and Boston's celebrated Faneuil Hall-Quincy Market complex, from Manhattan's reclaimed SoHo district to Sacramento's rehabilitated Skid Row, the emphasis is not so much on reverential restoration of old buildings as on their modernization and re...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIVING: The Recycling Of America | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

The first half of the novel is a merry comedy of errors and enmities. But when Robert unexpectedly disappears, leaving behind blackmail notes full of corrosive charges and half-truths, the tone sours. His victims are forced to face ugly personal secrets that they have tried to bury. Territorial Rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Venetian Affair | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

The story is as ever. The crown prince of a mythical country is under threat of assassination on the eve of his coronation because his wicked half brother wants the throne for himself. An Englishman who is a perfect double for the man who would be king is recruited to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mixed Double | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

Such outright farce as the film contains is confined to a sort of decorative frieze of character actors surrounding the main action. The most effective isGregory Sierra as a husband continually cuckolded and perpetually seeking revenge on the prince. Sierra is usually assaulting the wrong man entirely, ending up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mixed Double | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

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