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Good singing undoubtedly held Ellington together; the dancing, though accomplished and well-executed, changed styles too fast and too often. Crystal Terry's delightful tap-dancing number, "I'm Just a Lucky So and So," held together a daring length of time while the band held still, but it jostled...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Getting the Swing | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

Throughout all this, Blake produces more fog than film. Nevertheless, there are two reasons to view Murder by Decree: Christopher Plummer and James Mason. As the detective, Plummer grows from insufferable know-all to a man of sympathy and dimension. As the good doctor, Mason shuttles cannily from pawky humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: 93% Solution | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

Connery, Down and Donald Sutherland are three of today's most appealing movie stars. Connery plays the rogue who devises the heist. He is roguish. Down, with her blue-glazed eyes and magnificent body, is delightful, but her part as Connery's adoring partner is not. Sutherland plays the Cockney...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Nonelectric Trains | 2/9/1979 | See Source »

Lem plays his most sophisticated games when he reflects on the production of artificially intelligent beings. Indeed, God himself is considered as a vast cybernetic mind that may be the legacy of a first-generation universe that died billions of aeons ago. The machines of this universe were the laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Microchips and Men | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

John Skow's article on the Muppets [Dec. 25] was the most delightful, touching and refreshing story I've read in years. You missed a golden opportunity, however. A centerfold of Miss Piggy would have made the issue a collectors' item. Frank Bachenheimer Glenview, III.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1979 | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

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