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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just think of the clout the Ruckenbacks will have seven generations from now if the eleven brothers and sisters and their progeny each contributes an equal number of offspring to the world's population pot. All told, 214,358,881 Ruckenbacks would be on hand to express their opinions with their votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1979 | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...look first to see if the eyes are wide open and if they express intelligence," says François Truffaut, whose films about children include the haunting The 400 Blows and Small Change. Truffaut also looks for "vivacity, above all vivacity." He usually does not prepare a detailed script for children. "I prefer giving them the essential ideas of the scene, and then letting them express the ideas with their own vocabulary. I think that's the biggest difference." Adolescent actors sometimes get the giggles, reports Truffaut, but they rarely have inhibitions, at least at the beginning. Says he: "They usually...

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

...position, Krauss said he plans to continue developing an "adequate vocabulary" for designers, to promote the use of formalism to express human values and to create a more flexible code for designers...

Author: By Pamela Mccuen, | Title: New Official Wants Changes In Program on Urban Design | 8/7/1979 | See Source »

Krauss said he is trying to express human values in his own design work. His plan for a French town emphasizes the individual unit rather than large scale development...

Author: By Pamela Mccuen, | Title: New Official Wants Changes In Program on Urban Design | 8/7/1979 | See Source »

...frittered away on the screen. I don't mean that as an insult to films, but where else can an actor with no technical resources--a Jack Nicholson (good as he is), a Clint Eastwood, a Burt Reynolds--come off so well? Langella has broad features that express grand emotions, a voice as resonant and mellifluous as any in the American theater, and consummate physical control. In one scene in the stage Dracula, he brought off a piece of vocal and physical ballet: dodging and twisting around outstretched crucifixes, rasping out curses in defiance of his mortal captors, raging...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Staking the Wild Vampire | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

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