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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spacecraft will break up into approximately 500 pieces, with most weighing less than ten pounds, NASA officials said. However, the air lock shroud weighs 3900 pounds and the lead film safe weighs 5100 pounds. Both objects are likely to strike the earth at speeds greater than 260 miles per hour...

Author: By Gary G. Curtis, | Title: Skylab's Orbit Crosses Boston Area Tomorrow | 7/10/1979 | See Source »

...Moonraker, the first James Bond film since 007 producer Albert Broccoli released The Spy Who Loved Me two summers ago, Roger Moore proves that his two-time failure to live up to Sean Connery's characterization of the super-spy is more the fault of poorly written dialogue than Moore's often overdone tongue-in-cheek manner. In the current film, Moore and screenwriter Christopher Wood do a superb job of reanimating the classic 007 without going to gory extremes or poorly disguised reruns of former 007 themes...

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber, | Title: Space Shots | 7/10/1979 | See Source »

...core of Berkey's complex case was a charge that Kodak abused its dominant position when it launched its 110 Instamatic camera in 1972. The camera used a special-size film that came in an easy-to-install cartridge. Other camera makers were riled because they were caught by surprise and lost sales during the time it took to develop models that could use that cartridge. Berkey argued that Kodak had exploited its dominance in film manufacturing to give its Instamatic an unfair advantage over competitors and that it should have told its competitors in advance about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kodak's Win | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Statler and Waldorf, the old geezers who heckle the TV show, pop up long enough for Statler to say, "I've seen detergents that leave better films than this." This is too harsh, though even an addicted Muppet fan must admit that the movie has draggy stretches. The transition from the yank-'em-off-if-they-bomb lunacy of the TV show to the coherent narration of the film is not a complete success. Muppet magic remains a bewildering succession of wonderful bits, and perhaps the movie's best occurs when Rowlf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Green Blues | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...however, his owner insists that he must pursue his pugilistic career in earnest. This leads to much yelling between them and much misunderstanding of the rules and traditions of boxing once she takes a hand in his training. The feuding is supposed to be funny, but the film is so repetitive that it is usually boring, when it isn't uncomfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Low Blow | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

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