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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At 2,000 ft., on C. Pardee Erdman's 30,000-acre Ulupalakua ranch, speckled with volcanic boulders, cactus and 6,000 head of cattle, is Hawaii's only vineyard. It was carved out by Emil Tedeschi, 36, an emigre from a Napa Valley wine-making clan. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Maui: America's Magic Isle | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

could have prevented a serious distortion of the news." He also found "a sense of doubt or. even cynicism about the Government . . . brought about I'm sure" by the press's having been deceived over Viet Nam, Watergate and the CIA. As for inaccuracy, "I think a lot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Carter's Irresponsible Press | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

It was therefore with some trepidation that I went to see Out of the Reach of Children: yet whatever else its flaws, no one could deny this company its style. They were helped, for sure, by a very intimate theater, and an audience willing to enter into the spirit of...

Author: By Simon Goldhill, | Title: An Instructive Evening Of Harvard Theater | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

In fact, rather than the development of character, we had seen a static retrospective view of types at two stages of life, with little sense of growth between the two ages, which made projection into the "dream" of the future even more difficult. The main reason for this, paradoxically, lies...

Author: By Simon Goldhill, | Title: An Instructive Evening Of Harvard Theater | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

The discomfiting question remains: what makes these films so riveting, when we would have little interest or patience for the same stuff on paper or in the hands of a less talented director? It is largely Carpenter's gleeful knowingness, in constructing a situation and co-ordinating an action, with...

Author: By Larry Shapiro, | Title: Nuts and Jolts | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

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