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"To act this way is a refreshing and salutary experience," says Yves Montand. No wonder. Of late, he has been assassinated in Z, tortured in The Confession and kidnaped and murdered in State of Siege, but in the comedy he is now filming in Italy, Le Grand Esco-griffe (an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 26, 1976 | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

To protect Simants from prejudicial publicity - including a report that he had confessed - the trial judge banned full news coverage until a jury could be impaneled. The state supreme court eventually agreed that reporters could not use Simants' confession or any other fact "strongly implicative" of his guilt before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Death Penalty Revived | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

I am not objecting, as some do, to the archaic language that Miller has used to suggest the historical period and create a Brechtian distance between audience and player. The chief agents are the use of "Mister" to address the men and of "Goody" (colloquialism for "Goodwife") to refer to...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'The Crucible'--Witch-Hunts Then and Now | 7/6/1976 | See Source »

CATCH 1: U.S. corporations operating abroad would be required to report to the Federal Government any sizable payments that were intended "directly or indirectly to influence the conduct of foreign governments." The exact reporting method has not yet been worked out. By confessing its misdeed, the U.S. corporation would gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: The Double Damn | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

And what does the sports shelf have to gain besides a higher class of allusion from this new breed of Jock Lit? Well, length for one thing−notably in the case of James Michener. As readers of tomes like Hawaii and Centennial can testify, Michener is not one to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jock Lit 101 | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

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