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...ending elates for a moment but then in light of the rest of the film it's a bogus note. But aside from this, this is an unnerving little film, a very fine first feature which does more than simply show promise. The few flaws are annoying but not fatal. Dalen and his crew would be better off in the future not to go for the upbeat ending, but it's tough to blame them--everybody's got bills...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: No Credit | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...list of boobisms add this by a TV newsman: "another fatal killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1979 | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...rain a year, usually all at once, vs. 36.5 in. in more fertile northern Pakistan, near Kashmir. In summer, temperatures can rise to 130° F. In winter, they can fall to subfreezing levels. Desert scorpions and other noxious fauna abound. Prolonged exposure to Baluchistan can be fatal: when the army of Alexander the Great marched across it on the way home from India, two-thirds of the men died. But local folklore has it that Baluchistan's towering hills are carpets covering vast troves of mineral wealth. "We have a saying here," beams one local leader, the portly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Turbulent Fragment | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...stands: Bantam's The Suicide Cult and Berkley's Guyana Massacre. Produced by teams of journalists, the "instant" books, as they are known in the trade, feature photographs, background chapters on the Peoples Temple and firsthand accounts by reporters who had accompanied Representative Leo Ryan on his fatal journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Quickie Phenomenon | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Some never find salvation or happiness. San Francisco has the highest suicide rate and one of the highest alcoholism rates in the nation. Despite constant closed-circuit television monitoring, there have been 642 known fatal leaps from the Golden Gate Bridge. Last week, after the horror in Jonestown, the Suicide Prevention Center reported that the number of calls from desperate citizens had increased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: But Where Is What I Started For? | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

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