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Safran said yesterday that he told Spence that he "was at fault in not informing the University that we are holding the conference...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges and Michael W. Hirschorn, S | Title: Prof Took 2nd CIA Grant | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

...said of his forgotten son, "Anything is possible." But Leaming is such an enthusiastic admirer that she not only took down everything Welles said, but argues his cause in all his old battles. Most of the star's botched or abandoned projects turn out to be someone else's fault or at worst a series of misunderstandings. Even the breakup of his marriage to Rita Hayworth is blamed on her insecurity. Throughout, Welles remains an unappreciated genius, large of heart and kind to small animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Orson Wells | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...gravest fault of all with this film is its insistence on answering all questions ambiguously. But real contradictions and questions appear in the movie that should upset Livingston's new found spiritual agnosticism. Which of the conception stories do we believe, and why does another nun appear to have acted as liason in one of them? What was the Mother Superior's real role in the crime? After all, she was present exerting her maximum influence on Agnes during hypnosis, and one can lie under hypnosis. And who is the baby's father...

Author: By T.m. Doyle, | Title: Lukewarm Guilt | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

...mile ribbon of Mexican Pacific coastline that stretches from Manzanillo to Acapulco has long been considered one of the world's beautiful places, home to a sprinkling of fishing hamlets and resorts. Yet beneath the indigo waves and silky white beaches lies a jagged fault line that could be one of the deadliest in the Western Hemisphere. It was this fault that erupted under the Pacific last week, causing the earthquake that measured 7.8 on the Richter scale,* rocked coastal towns and brought disaster to Mexico City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of an Earthquake | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...plates carrying two continental masses collide, for example, the crust buckles, creating craggy mountain ranges like the Himalayas. If they grind past each other, as the Pacific and North American plates do under California's San Andreas fault, friction locks them together. Every so often, abrupt slippages occur and the earth around them shudders in what geologists call strike-slip quakes. Still another kind of tectonic phenomenon, the meeting of an oceanic and a continental plate, is responsible for the Mexican disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of an Earthquake | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

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