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As it follows perverse characters, this family history sparkles on the surface. But The House of Mitford refuses to probe the darkness, and by treating its subjects with too much charity, reduces their lives and careers to a series of gossipy, entertaining, but ultimately trivial pursuits. Perhaps, given their predilections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Power Lovers the House of Mitford | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

All is darkness -- as dark as a minute to midnight on the first day of creation, as dark as a movie house just before the feature starts. Then the movement begins, a tracking shot down the birth canal of a hallway, toward the mystery. Suddenly, light! A bright room filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Dream for a Living | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

Well, no. And yes. It is Spielberg's earliest memory, from a day in 1948 when he was taken in a stroller to a Cincinnati synagogue for a service with Hasidic elders. "The old men were handing me little crackers," Spielberg recalls. "My parents said later I must have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Dream for a Living | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

For the 39 American hostages, their anxious relatives in the U.S., and for officials in Washington, Damascus and Jerusalem, the weekend had sent emotions spiraling from hope to gloom and back again. The captives were on their way to freedom, the White House had announced before dawn on Saturday. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Last, the Agony Is Over | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

Indeed, Discovery was turned 180 degrees in the wrong direction, with the mirror facing the darkness of space instead of the laser beam coming from earth. "We slipped up," said Flight Director Milton Heflin. Human error had ruined the first space shuttle experiment in President Reagan's $26 billion Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Star Wars Snafu | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

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