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One odd consequence of the terrorism, reports Rio de Janeiro Correspondent Kay Huff, is that ordinary bank robbers nowadays insist that they are not urban guerrillas, even as they are scooping up the bags of bills and coins. The reason is simple: unlike common criminals, terrorists face the wrath of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Nov. 2, 1970 | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

Darker Than Amber is not the best of the genre, but it provides some neat jolts of violent entertainment. The plot is the usual thing: Private Detective Travis McGee* (Rod Taylor) rescues lady-in-distress (Suzy Kendall); their affair is pleasant enough, but she skips out on him and is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Working the Vein | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

After three years of iron-fisted rule, Greece's military junta suddenly seemed to be relaxing its grip. A total of 332 political prisoners were unexpectedly released from jail en masse. Twenty-seven men and women convicted of participating in a bomb plot that rocked Athens last summer were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: A Sop to the Critics | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

The latest entrant is The Lawyer , touted as making its debut at the Saxon Theater, although the week before it had been shown at the Harvard Square to an audience of law students, who proceeded to make Director Sidney J. Furie feel about as welcome as Judge Hoffman in the...

Author: By Clifford Terry, | Title: The Moviegoer Sound and Furie "The Lawyer" at the Saxon | 2/11/1970 | See Source »

The setting and the mood are Saroyanesque, an East Texas small-town bar. The time is the '40s and '50s, as the hero (Ken Kercheval) grows from boyhood to manhood. The father claims that he hates the boy, which is only half true. Not the least of Hailey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Oedipal Farce | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

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