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The Carter Administration's agreement to settle the A T& T case was a stunning anticlimax. Since the suit against the world's largest corporation (assets: $125 billion) was originally filed in 1974, the Justice Department has spent $10 million preparing its case, and A T& T has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midnight Deal: Static over the AT&T accord | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

The Elephant Man. David Lynch transforms the story of John Merrick-the noble ogre of Victorian England-into a grim, lovely fairy tale. John Hurt inhabits Merrick with grace and spirit in the year's sweetest movie.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema: Best Of 1980 | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

WITHOUT THE FOUR YEARS of solid research behind it, Wayward Reporter might have turned into a dry, formal investigation of modern journalistic writing from 19th-century mush to Hearstian sensationalism to the terse prose on the front page of today's New York Times. At times, Sokolov seems a little...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: High Liebling | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

Someone ought to inform the Rev. Jerry Falwell [Nov. 17] that if Jesus had wanted his followers to support Republicans, he would have ridden into Jerusalem on an elephant.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 1, 1980 | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

Ultimately, The Elephant Man is a cheat. It demands emotional intensity from the audience, but offers very little of its own.

Author: By Jacoba Atlas, | Title: The Elephant Man | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

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