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More Japanese women than ever are working in fields that range from physics to zoology. Yet most women still wield their power in the home, following the ancient saying: "A wise falcon hides its talons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN OF THE YEAR: Great Changes, New Chances, Tough Choices | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

...Great God! This is an awful place. " So wrote the English explorer Robert Falcon Scott after he reached the South Pole in 1912. Scott, who was just beaten to the pole by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, had good reason to complain. Temperatures regularly drop to -100º F. during the polar winter. Sudden storms bring gale-force winds, and visibility frequently drops to zero during a "whiteout," making it impossible to see perilous crevasses ahead. Yet in spite of its hostile environment, Antarctica is becoming the object of increasing worldwide interest. Its shrimplike krill and millions of seals make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Trip to the Bottom of the World | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

Heavy Acting. The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep got around these problems partly through strong writing and heavy acting power, but also because the genre was newer then. More recently, Chinatown combined a script of elegant complexity with the sort of terse romanticism that made the plot move with comparative ease. The Drowning Pool can boast only the formula without the chemistry-plus Paul Newman, reviving his Harper character of some ten years back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Appointed Rounds | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

...that the quotes in this book cannot be accurate, and this is probably true." The problem is not one of accuracy but of familiarity. Benchley's frail chronicle offers the standard stories of Hollywood's old rebel, who pursued independence the way Sam Spade sought the Maltese falcon. Defining the difference between himself and most everybody else, Bogart used to claim that the world was about two drinks behind. Benchley, with his arch collage of pictures and incidents, is a lot farther back than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Show and Tell | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

Topper Returns, 4, 6:45, 9:25 p.m., and The Falcon Takes Over, 5:35, 8:15, 11 p.m. tonight. The Lady from Shaghal, 4, 6:40, 9:25 p.m. and Meet Boston Blackie, 5:35, 8:15, 11 p.m. until Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 3/20/1975 | See Source »

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