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THEY STEPPED OUT of Jefferson Hall into the fog, dazed and crick-necked. The midyear examination was over and they had made it halfway through Economics 10, Harvard's most popular course. In the eerie, unseasonal mist, indifference curves and isocosts danced before them. Maybe "popular" is the wrong word...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Spinach and Sandcastles | 2/17/1976 | See Source »

...What makes me run?" Bailey has written. "I burn, dammit, that's why. I like to run." It is the same with flying. Bailey almost never delays a flight in his own aircraft. "It goes no matter what," and the "what" may be rain, snow, ice, fog, turbulence, thunderstorm or some combination thereof. One white-knuckled regular on these flights reports that Bailey invariably ends the hairiest trips by chortling: "Well, we've defeated the grim reaper once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Piloting Patty's Defense | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

...grandest deception lay in the fog surrounding Dday. Preparations were ponderous, and they aimed clearly at Normandy. But by a brilliant orchestration of fakery, constantly retuned according to the monitoring by Ultra, Hitler was led to believe that invasion was imminent in the Balkans, then in Norway and finally, even after Dday, in the area of Calais. "Special means" had created phantom invasion forces in East Anglia, opposite Calais, complete with phony inflatable tanks that looked real from the air and "complaints" from clergymen about the soldiers' habit of discarding condoms. The nonexistent army even had an illustrious commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Looking-Glass War | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

Director Jaecklin treats O as if it were an idyl on the order of, say, A Man and a Woman. Fog filters are extensively employed; whenever a whip is raised, Jaecklin quickly averts his camera's eye. If it is absolutely necessary to show the results of the disciplinary efforts expended on O, he sees to it that she is most prettily posed for the occasion. She recovers physically and psychologically from her sufferings with a speed that defies both medical science and common sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boy Beats Girl | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

Contributor Richard Schickel, who wrote the story, carefully studied the correspondents' reports and other material on Kubrick. When Kubrick finally did concede to an interview, Schickel flew to London where the two had a four-hour middle-of-the-night conversation in a fog-shrouded studio at nearby Elstree. Schickel found him "tirelessly intelligent, extremely responsive and straightforward, and not at all elusive intellectually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 15, 1975 | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

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