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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worry since he took power in a 1969 military coup. With the country's approximately $10 billion in annual revenues, mostly from oil, the ascetic, fanatically religious Gaddafi has become, among other things, one of the world's foremost backers of terrorism and insurrection. Pursuing a dream of a Libyan-led Islamic sphere of influence, he has fomented a coup against the regime of Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry, expropriated land from neighboring Chad, and edged relations with Egypt perilously close to outright war. Despite these foreign excesses, he remains securely in power at home. Last week TIME Correspondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBYA: Living the 'Third Theory' | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...numbers or solfege syllables like do, re, mi that are bleached of definition. Feeling but not meaning is conveyed by Gertrude Steinian repetition. So mesmeric are the proceedings that it is startling when the curtain finally drops. In Einstein on the Beach, Wilson has created more of a dream than an opera. Joan Downs

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Beach Boy of Opera | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...Dallas club sign him, Acorn does not plan to pursue a long-term career in professional soccer. He said that any contract he signed with the Tornados would not be lucrative, but that playing pro soccer, even for a short time, would be the fulfillment of a life-long dream...

Author: By David J. Wlody, | Title: Acorn Will Get Dallas Tryout | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

Guided by the new catalogue, students will shun pre-professional courses and embrace the arts, the humanities, the "impractical" social and physical sciences. Why settle for the cash value of an M.D., J.D., or M.B.A. when the return on truth is infinite? It is an Adam Smith dream: the profit motive, at play in the market place of ideas, will save liberal education...

Author: By Frank D. Fisher, | Title: Liberal Arts: Bringing Back the Bottom Line | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

...form and presence are well exploited here, although modesty at one point combines with technical ineptness to produce an awkward effect. In a dream sequence, Antonelli appears, dressed in a nun's habit of sheerest gossamer, running toward the camera in slow motion. This affords a welcome opportunity to examine the female form in motion, a salutary study quickly spoiled by the sight of gauze, securely fastened by surgical tape, covering the actress's privates. Soft-core security measures such as this may destroy even the most innocent reveries, but conclusively demonstrate that Antonelli, underneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Selected Appetizers | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

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