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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ruth Carter Stapleton, on whether she will help Brother Jimmy's 1980 campaign: "I guess so, because we have a real close family. We weren't so close until Jimmy went into politics. Now Jimmy needs us every year for something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 30, 1979 | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...silk screens and wardrobe. She can dress in a thousand more creative ways than she did in Annie Hall. When I first met her, she'd combine unbelievable stuffat boots, some chic thing from Ralph Lauren." Though Allen and Keaton have not been romantically involved since 1971, they remain close, and he hopes some day to create a musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Woody | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...Woody says, "the poignancy of age. He raps contemporary mores. He's clinging to Gershwin, the music of the past and to black and white." Beyond that, Allen lets long scenes play without break. The camera often just sits on its haunches and stares, without even a close-up or a reverse angle intruding. Variation comes from movement within the frame; sometimes, in fact, the actor moves right out of it, keeps talking off camera and then reappears. When a director trusts his material that much, he encourages the audience to trust it as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woody Allen Comes of Age | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...good example, because he has a high moral sense." That includes playing the not always grateful part of the only conscious moralist in Manhattan. Onscreen, Murphy accuses him of playing God (Woody's reply: "I've got to model myself after someone.") Offscreen, Murphy, who is a close friend, says, "Woody could have made a safer picture, like Annie Hall. This film is a lot tougher, harder-edged. And it was a bold step for Woody not to be a hero." This, according to another frequent co-star and pal, Tony Roberts, is part of his character. "He seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woody Allen Comes of Age | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...barren island with hardly a house upon it." Such was British Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston's contemptuous description of Hong Kong before it was ceded to the British by a weak Chinese regime at the close of the Opium War in 1842. As a fruit of war, it was not considered a peach. But over the past 137 years, the once blighted island has developed into a bustling seaport colony that boasts a thriving economy. Though Britain's lease on 90% of the 400-sq.-mi. area expires in only 18 years, residents expect a glowing future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hong Kong's Golden Link | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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