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...Edward hopes to make them "best friends" again after Amy has an affair with her libertine half sister Blanche. A mysterious stranger appears and reappears. Amy begins to act strange, as if she possesses some important secret. Edward begins to spot possible hints of new infidelity everywhere-in a faint whiff of cigarette smoke, a footprint, a random passage from a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

With the appearance of Novelist Herbert Lieberman's City of the Dead, the faint of stomach are in for yet another assault on their feelings. Yet precisely because Lieberman's book, certifiably the shocker of the summer, speeds up the already overaccelerated trend toward limitless carnage, it vividly raises an old, unpopular question: Might not the squeamish have a point after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burial Rights | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...observers in the Middle East thought that the Syrians were about to pull out more than a token number of their forces. Nonetheless, reports from Beirut indicated that the fighting was diminishing as the Pan-Arab contingents began separating Syrian from Palestinian and leftist Moslem forces. Once again, faint hopes for peace stirred in the prostrate country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: A Shaky Compromise in Lebanon | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

...international outcry and possibly have an effect on the Kremlin. Taylor only went public with this unique, and hitherto discreetly quiet, legal-aid effort after it became clear that the only response obtainable from Soviet legal authorities was either embarrassed obfuscation or pure stony silence. Still Taylor has some faint hope. Months after the project ended in 1975, one of the 19 defendants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crime and Punishment? | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...change of pace, everyone is marched up to the stage, row by row, to confront the crowd, est workers eyeball each trainee from a few feet away, while Ron screams to "get rid of that phony smile, drop that face!" Legs buckle. Four people faint; one throws up. Then two more processes. One on danger: as we lie there for hours, eyes closed, listening to Ron conjure up images of danger, est attendants clump ominously around our bodies. More agonized screaming. Last, a "reverse danger" process. We are told everyone around us-in fact millions of people -are afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: est: 'There Is Nothing to Get' | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

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