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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never go to bed before 3 a.m. and I never get up before 10 a.m.), loved Celtic harp music and Gregorian chants, and belonged to the Spartacus Youth League, a group of rhetoric-spouting Trotskyites who have done much to discredit leftist politics. "Chemistry is a communist plot," she grinned. "It's had free radicals for years." Then she turned and cackled to herself--a trait that would persist throughout the year--and I got the hell out of there...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: A Ticket to Ride | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...buddy persuade Lauren to see a porno flick. She watches for a few minutes, then walks out, feeling sick. Daniel follows, ashamed of himself, trying to comfort her. Lauren nods; she is all right. She did not enjoy her view of the hydraulics of sex, but it has done no damage. The viewer feels that real children are, in fact, like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

Truffaut may be underestimating the coolness of the newest wave of young actresses. Brooke Shields smiles sweetly when told of his theory. "I don't think I've ever gotten nervous, and I have done six films," says she. (Four have not yet been released; the most recent to appear is Just You and Me, Kid, with George Burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

Fields was using Baby LeRoy's posterior to administer a blunt point of protest about the prevailing school of American movie acting, juvenile division. Chaplin had done his best to counter cuteness and establish a kind of enhanced naturalism when he cast Jackie Coogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Brats and Perfect People | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...effects of the vast cooling of America. In fact, air conditioning has substantially altered the country's character and folkways. With the dog days at hand and the thermostats ostensibly up, it is a good time to begin taking stock of what air conditioning has done besides lower the indoor temperature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Great American Cooling Machine | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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