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...across the generations at a time when the weakening of traditional U.S. family bonds is a focus of concern. Many come from strongly patriarchal societies and find themselves in conflict with expanding social opportunities for American women. Most intangibly, latinos offer the U.S. an amalgam of buoyancy, sensuousness and flair that many northern peoples find tantalizing or mysterious?and sometimes irritating or threatening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Your Turn in the Sun | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter and the Harvard Corporation appear to have something in common these days. At least, Harvard appears to have developed a flair for contradictions, as it demonstrated this week over the issue of purchasing short-term bonds in Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company of New York...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: More Portfolio Problems | 10/14/1978 | See Source »

...narrative in congruities; that's what Colin Higgins did for much of the time in his not dissimilar Foul Play. But Screenwriter Reginald Rose, best known for TV's Twelve Angry Men and The Defenders, is not Mr. Light Touch. The film's only flair comes from Director Lamont Johnson, who tries to force-feed sophistication into the proceedings. Johnson has shot the film at a fast pace in romantic Manhattan locations, and he has recruited outstanding stage actors, notably John Wood and John Glover, for the secondary roles. He provides at least the illusion of slickness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Angel in Distress | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...groups that oppose "racism." More than half went to black organizations in southern Africa that have used guerrilla violence in trying to overthrow white minority regimes. The revolutionary grants program began when the W.C.C. general secretary was Eugene Carson Blake, a liberal U.S. Presbyterian with a flair for politics. It was controversial from the start, but the W.C.C. easily lined up enough backing from its 293 Protestant and Orthodox member denominations to fend off critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Going Beyond Charity | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...good as Townshend's. "905," a song about a depersonalized future, has a cold, catchy beat recognizably not Townshend's but definitely the Who's. Daltrey has once again taken control of his voice and uses it with as much energy as in the past, and more dramatic flair, controlling the frenzy and leaving the primal screams for a few climactic moments...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: One Last Time Around | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

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