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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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There had not been time to order in Israel's crack antiterrorist squads. So the task of stopping the terrorists fell to some 30 traffic cops, armed only with .38 revolvers and UZI submachine guns. When the bus finally skidded into a ditch with all its tires flat, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: A Sabbath of Terror | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

At first battered husbands may overlook their wives' occasional outbursts of physical punishment and simply hope they blow over. But before long a flurry of wifely fists is part of the domestic routine. Says Family Therapist Norman Paul of Boston: "They think their wives' violence is part of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: The Battered Husbands | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

But there is really much more than that. For what Reid has begun, despite all the excesses and unavoidable artistic sacrifices to the commercial novelist's form book, is an intriguing story of a man at odds with his culture and his deepest beliefs. And it is all the more...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Broken Dreams and Kneecaps | 2/22/1978 | See Source »

It is very stale stuff, and, sadly, Bergman makes no more of it than the musical Cabaret did. It all comes out more picturesque than terrifying. Bergman, too, shows the developing monster through the eyes of an innocent, though this one lacks the lively intelligence of the young man in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cabaret Act | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

The two detectives intend to nail the killer, short of slitting his throat. As one of the cops explains, punishment must precede the trial since the judge will probably release "scum" like them. The older detective, Kelly (George Dzundza), is built like a bull elephant and when he talks he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Night Screams | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

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