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...pace and the courage of bleak convictions, not just about movie people, but the human race in general. In the end, one cannot help respecting a movie that hilariously links death and creativity, yet has enough childish lunacy to have one creep respond to another's admonitory finger wave by simply taking a bite out of the wagging digit. On a colossal scale, that is what Edwards has done in S.O.B. - bitten the hand that feeds him. And discovered that it is soul food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Biting the Hand of Hollywood | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...individual signals have a way of misfiring just as easily, with results just as calamitous if not as earthshaking. The danger of misunderstanding increases dramatically when even the most elementary signals are used by people in different cultures. The happiest of overt American signals, the circled thumb and index finger, unless accompanied by a smile, amounts to an insult in France. The innocent American habit of propping a foot on a table or crossing a leg in figure-four style could cause hard feelings among Arabs, to whom the showing of a shoe sole is offensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why So Much Is Beyond Words | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

Frank Trippett points his Freudian finger at 15 world figures, ranging from Lee lacocca to John Lennon, and implies they could all self-destruct because of a "pathetic private weakness." Instead of self-destructing, they have made successful contributions to our world. Self-confidence helped them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 6, 1981 | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...author weaves in an elaborate spy story that involves the CIA, the KGB, Britain's MI-6 and the spy networks of both Chinas. The sex is rather decorous, but for sports buffs, there are rousing horse races. And the roiling cast of characters includes people like Four Finger Wu and Good-weather Poon. Ayeeyah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...mountain search team recovered the body of Ann G. Renfrew '82 in Five Finger Gulch on the mountain's south face...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Ann Renfrew '82 Dies While Hiking In Great Britain | 7/3/1981 | See Source »

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