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Lady Diana, who had landed at Dean Close School only moments before in a helicopter piloted by her betrothed, took the flower, considered the proposition and smiled prettily. She seems, after all, to know no other way. "Yes, you may," she said, extending her hand. Nicholas kissed, schoolboys laughed, and the Queen-to-be giggled, "You will never live this down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Queen for a New Day | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...Nigel Terry (Arthur) is no Sean Connery, the parfit gentil knight of Robin and Marian, but he passes persuasively from innocence to kingship to the realization that immortality can be won only through a fatal joust with his son and slayer. Cherie Lunghi too closely resembles a Covent Garden flower child to bring Guenevere to mature life, but her callow modernity wreathes Excalibur in later ideals of post-courtly love. Nicholas Clay makes an athletic Lancelot: he could be a dashing soldier of fortune or a knight in stainless steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Glorious Camp of Camelot | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...Drive. The authors' earnings from a single volume can reach $30,000, and novelists like Janet Dailey (80 million copies of 57 novels in print) produce eight books a year for a six-figure income. Experience is not necessary. Bestselling Writers Kathleen Wood-iwiss (The Flame and the Flower) and Jude Deveraux (The Velvet Promise) were dis covered in the "slush pile"- the trade term for unsolicited manuscripts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excerpt: From Bedroom to Boardroom | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...environment where plants refuse to flower, flame burns in a sphere instead of a cone, and mice are too befuddled to reproduce, man is bound to find life uncomfortable...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Harvard Project in Shuttle's Spacelab Aims to Smooth Adaptations to Space | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

...pull Sally down are represented by her former husband Dave-played by a young Canadian actor named Robert Joy, who is the punkest punk to show up on the screen in a long time-and her hugely pregnant sister (Hollis McLaren), who is now living with him and spouting flower-child irrelevancies. Dave has in hand a stash of cocaine he has scored off the Mob, which is in hot pursuit. If the drugs, and this rotten kid, represent danger, they also offer opportunity. The coke is fungible: it can be converted into a ticket to France for Sally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boardwalk | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

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