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A group of students that made national headlines last spring when it launched a campaign to stop Harvard from tearing down its ivy is still clinging to its favorite issue.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Preservation Movement Digs In For Another Season | 10/1/1982 | See Source »

Woody Allen has chosen to jettison those aspects of his comedy that made him a national endearment, while clinging to acting and directing mannerisms that even his audience may have outgrown. Has he lost the knack? Or just misplaced it? An answer should come soon enough. His next film-not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Airy Nothing | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

Equality does not eradicate differences in gender, it exalts them, which should be some comfort to cowering sexists still clinging to every advantage they have ever wangled or wrung out of women. Equality is only a threat if reality is. In the rubble of busted pedestals and shredded stereotypes are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Long Till Equality? | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

At week's end Argentina's leaders still refused to admit military defeat. Clinging to the position that had doomed all efforts at a negotiated settlement before the guns were unleashed in the South Atlantic, the Argentines insisted that their claim to sovereignty over the Falklands be negotiated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, to Win the Peace | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

It is possible that Smash Palace is either very brave or very foolish in its refusal to calculate how its moral is likely to anger feminists. But since it is a movie stamped with integrity in every frame, it seems more likely that it was made with no ideology in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Breaking Up | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

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