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...military wants billions more. The mayors call a 60 billion program a 'first step,' farmers want to plant all they can and be guaranteed a profit. This insatiability could devour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Perils of Giving 'Em Hell | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...SUCCEEDED. Tamsen Donner is both the exact detailing of one woman's movement toward death and rebirth, and a proud, universal protest against decay, as represented by George Donner's "festering wound." Without ever descending to self-pity Tamsen asks: "Must we devour ourselves/in order to survive?" She replies: "I cannot see/how I could bear to live/by eating my friend's death...

Author: By Harte Weiner, | Title: Death and Rebirth | 4/7/1978 | See Source »

...Saugus, Mass., a Swiss-developed technique used by New Hampshire-based Wheelabrator-Frye converts and burns 1,200 tons of garbage daily, producing the steam equivalent of 12 million to 17 million gals, of oil a year for a nearby General Electric plant. A Milwaukee plant is designed to devour 1,600 tons of garbage a day and feed the byproduct fuel to the Wisconsin Electric Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Moving to Garbage Power | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...does its own offspring. "Here's a goodie!" the cat is saying. "Chase it!" (if it is half-dead). "Taste it!" That is the basic training by which the young cat is taught to kill. It takes remarkable self-discipline for the mother not to finish off and devour the captured creature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Felis Imperator | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...room. Later, in one of the movie's funniest scenes, Artoo and the wookie play a variant of chess with holographic figures. Instead of a bishop capturing a knight, a little dinosaur jumps a small, ectoplasmic BEM (as sci-fi fans call bug-eyed monsters) and proceeds to devour him. (Losing makes wookies so dyspeptic that Artoo is sagely counseled to let Chewjbacca win.) All science fiction movies these days are measured against Stanley Kubrick's monumental 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). But even by that standard, Star Wars is tops. To work out the photographic special effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: STAR WARS The Year's Best Movie | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

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