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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egypt--ah, the stuff of which murder victims are made--is killed in her stateroom while everyone else's attention is on the groom, who has been shot in the leg by the drunk, half-crazed woman he jilted to marry the heiress. Also on board this floating Orient Express is the legendary Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), who hears all, sees all, and eats all, at least to judge by his bulk. Add one American lawyer trying to cover up the fact that he has been embezzling the heiress's money, and balance with one English lawyer keeping...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Christie on the Nile | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

...some extent, Rosovsky was right. A forum allowing students to express their discontent with the Core attracted only a handful of people. However, the forum was held the same night as a torchlight march against Harvard's investment policy...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Speaking for Students | 10/18/1978 | See Source »

Several Ns110 students contacted yesterday did not express concern over the situation. Ruth A. Ballinger '81 said yesterday she liked having a sophomore T.F. "because he's closer in age and I feel more easy about asking questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduates Teach Sections In Nat Sci 110 | 10/17/1978 | See Source »

...Angeles will try to halt the Yankee express with veteran Don Suton in Tuesday night's sixth game. New York will use caatfish Hunter, saving ace Ron Guidry for a poossible seventh game--hoping one isn't needed. Sutton was the third-game loser and Hunter was charged with the loss in Game...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Unhappy Dodgers Stagger Back to L.A. To Continue an Upside-Down Series | 10/17/1978 | See Source »

...prove that you don't have to be a hairy-chested director of the Sam Peckinpah school to get your kicks on blood and gore. It may also indicate that there are some virtues in the straightforward approach of someone like Peckinpah to violent material. In Midnight Express one imagines the director peering through the viewfinder and murmuring, "Goyaesque," or worse, "Ken Russell." Anyway, the continual aestheticizing of squalor and of brutality, not to mention the poeticizing of prison homosexuality-a necessity perhaps for prisoners but not, surely, a joyous compensation for most of them-finally makes one very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ugly Trip | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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