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A stocky fellow with curly red hair, Beltrante, 49, runs Investigations, Inc., his own twelve-person detective agency, out of Alexandria, Va. He is just as proud of the autographed pictures of George McGovern and Gerald Ford on the wall as he is of the electronic tools of his sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Supersleuthing: Fair Means or Foul | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

A large number of their wives are housewives, many beginning careers or returning to jobs only after the children are grown. About half of the wives work part-time or as volunteers. Given the goals of most women 25 years ago, even the one-fourth of the women who do...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apologetic Leftists and Cambridge Slush | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

Lucas' goal is to be independent enough to make small, esoteric films. Marcia, however, wants him to continue directing movies like Star Wars and Graffiti, that everyone can enjoy. Both may have their way. Star Wars may well make Lucas a rich man, able to work on two levels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Movie Movie Gang | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

The art calls for baroque extravagance and Berger provides plenty. Esoteric words ("canescing," "superfetation," "glabrous") gambol freely with lowlife slang. Natalie Novotny, Wren's girl friend, refuses his offer to pay for dinner because he has already picked up the Czech. Objects and people are described in loopy, gargantuan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loopy Locutions | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

This particular historic record of Nazi oppression against sexual variation remains so obscure as to be sometimes greeted with disbelief, but anyone with a fair and inquiring mind cannot help but ask why this particular historic tragedy should remain an esoteric and largely undiscussed subject.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All You Need Is Love | 3/15/1977 | See Source »

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