Search Details

Word: done (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...unpredictable," said one foreign ministry official. "How can you tell how he will react?" Practically without exception, Israelis approved of the military action. Former Premier Yitzhak Rabin, who has bitterly criticized Menachem Begin's handling of the peace negotiations in the past, said he thought the government had done the only thing it could in response to the terrorist raid. Another Begin critic, former Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, concluded that the invasion took place ''at the right time, in the right place, with the right method." Jerusalem would "try to see to it" that its forces did not long remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israel Severs the Arm | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

With the possible exception of Choreographer Jerome Robbins, no one has done more to reinvent the modern Broadway musical than the team of Director Harold Prince and Composer Stephen Sondheim. In four successive collaborations-Company, Follies, A Little Night Music and Pacific Overtures-they have proved that America's foremost indigenous theatrical form can accommodate adult themes, unconventional music and innovative flights of staging and dance. Now Prince and Sondheim have adapted one of their shows to the screen, and the results are perversely stupefying. The film version of A Little Night Music looks less like a daring Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Schmaltz Waltz | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

Gray Lady Down is that old favorite about the damaged submarine resting on the bottom, its occupants growing ever more fearful that they may be done in either by a deficit of air or a surplus of water (Will those hatches hold at this depth?). Topside, expensive efforts, often frustrated, are made to rescue them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Escape Hatch | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...outline, the film has a predictable air about it, it should also be said that it isn't half bad. There is a crisp professionalism about David Greene's direction, and the writers have done without that bane of the disaster-picture formula, the subplot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Escape Hatch | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...elected president of the newly formed Iowa Federation of Astrologers. Finally, he got permission from a faculty committee to teach his bizarre course. As Weltha explained to TIME Correspondent Anne Constable: "My academic appetite is restless. I don't like to do anything that's been done before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reincarnation Furor in Iowa | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

Previous | 225 | 226 | 227 | 228 | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | 236 | 237 | 238 | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | 244 | 245 | Next