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...gaffes fade from memory once Close Encounters reaches its climax???for which Spielberg saves the most spectacular futuristic effects. Even here, it is the director, not the technical staff, who causes the movie to take flight. In Spielberg's benign view, the confrontation between human and alien is an ecstatic evolutionary adventure, rather than a potentially lethal star war; it is a wondrous opportunity for man to be reborn. When the earthlings and the visitors at last communicate in the film, bellowing "Hello" to each other in bursts of light and music, it is like hearing a child speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Aliens Are Coming! | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...success may have come from the use of familiar techniques of TV melodrama?with a twist: the heroes and heroines were black. Said black Historian Benjamin Quarles of Morgan State College in Maryland: "There was the threat of violence, the appeal of sex, all building up to a wonderful climax???all the things that make for good television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY 'ROOTS' HIT HOME | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...Lewis' request was the climax???or almost the climax???of an attempt to rid the union of communists masquerading under various titles: " The Progressive International Committee of the United Mine Workers of America," " The Trades Union Educational League" and others. Previously in an official statement the United Mine Workers denounced these groups as their arch enemies?the creatures of William Z. Foster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eradicating Radicals | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

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