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...there is an Old Testament harshness to the Rebekah regime. The windows have alarms. The rooms are bugged, and the girls are kept under constant surveillance. Mail is censored. Errant inmates are given "licks" with wooden paddles; serious offenders, like those who try to run away, are tied up or put in solitary confinement "lockups" for days. "We're not dealing with kids who got caught fooling around in church choir practice, you know," says Roloff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Doing It His Way | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...Deer Hunter of its own: Friendly Fire, an ABC made-for-TV movie based on C.D.B. Bryan's 1976 nonfiction book (April 22, 8 p.m.). Carol Burnett and Ned Beatty play an Iowa farm couple who turn against the war when their son is killed by an errant U.S. artillery round in Viet Nam. As their anger grows more obsessive, they gradually alienate their lifelong friends and even their own family. In Bryan's book, the process is deeply moving, but the TV version is cluttered with cliches and civics lessons. The best TV show about the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Viet Nam Comes Home | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...begins with a Saturday afternoon. Baseball season may have already lumbered over the horizon, but even the Red Sox can't enthrall every kid in town. Some of those children will always prefer to spend their time catching the odd fish rather than the errant fast ball...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: It Happens at the Aquarium, Too | 4/17/1979 | See Source »

Harvard finished with a team aggregate of 432, while B.C. and Salem State tied at 435. As Himelman battled the course like a lone knight errant, George Arnold posted an 86 for the Crimson. Spence Fitzgibbons and Chip Raffi both fired 89s in their season debut, and Jimmy Dales shot an even...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Sweep in Opener at Tough New Seabury | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

...nicest play of the night. First grabbed an errant Eagle shot and quickly hit a streaking Dave Wigglesworth with a bomb over the middle that would have made Steve Grogan envious. Wigglesworth quickly shuffled it off to a waiting Mike Faught who whizzed it by a blinking Colombo into the goal for the fourteenth in a seemingly endless series of Harvard tallies...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Laxmen Crunch Eagles, 22-8, As Predun Leads Run Away | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

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