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Still, it is depressing to watch an expensive, crafty movie that never soars beyond its cold desire to score the big bucks. Unlike Jaws, Alien does not use stylistic cunning to excite the audience; it just shovels on the mayhem. Unlike Star Wars, Alien has no affection for past movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sell Job | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

But Rockefeller has not only appealed to the snob, he has appealed to the investor. His "limited editions" imply that there might be some resale market for the cunning purchaser, that a buyer today might be able to go out and resell his copy for a profit in the future...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: Rockefeller and His Clones | 5/25/1979 | See Source »

"I don't think that anyone expects this to be an easy race for Yale," Harvard coach Peter Raymond said last night. Seeing that its blow-them-away approach was unsuccessful with Yale, Harvard intends to resort to cunning and guile this week. The Crimson hopes to stay with Yale...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: It's Harvard, Yale and All the Rest at Sprints | 5/11/1979 | See Source »

Iran is the most telling example. Late last month millions of men and women went to the polls for a referendum in which they voted overwhelmingly in favor of an Islamic republic. The affirmative vote created the nation's first "government of God," declared the Ayatullah Khomeini. The monarchy will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Islam | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Still, who could say with certitude that Nixon did not look like a Chief Executive and that Kennedy did, or vice versa? Is a President clean-cut? Ulysses S. Grant would have fit right in at an Allen Ginsberg poetry reading. Trim? Honest Grover Cleveland's dreadnought corpulence might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Looking for Mr. President | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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