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...Jimmy and Scoop, Mo and Sarge, Ronnie and Jerry cluttering the television screens and the front pages have barely begun to fade. And here they are, by any measure a full year too soon, about to assault us once again. So brace yourself for those film clips of frigid handshakes at the gates of bleak factories, with candidates snorting white steam from mouths and nostrils, of flinty, numb voters nodding vacantly at vacant campaign promises; of parka-encased reporters up to their knees in snow, watching and waiting in vain for a phrase or a glance that will rise above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Here We Go Again | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

Seething gases and liquids mask its rocky core. Its frigid atmosphere consists mostly of hydrogen and helium. Great cyclones and hurricanes swirl in its turbulent sky, with brilliant red and orange clouds constantly merging and breaking apart in ever changing patterns. Often the turbulence creates trails of sinuous white vapors thousands of miles long. The awesome, forbiddingly beautiful world is that of Jupiter, a planet so large it could swallow more than 1,300 earths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Intimate Glimpses of a Giant | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...airplanes must be directed over Cambridge so they can take-off directly into the wind. David Nsabimana, a noise monitor and technician with Massport, said yesterday. They will continue on their present pattern until the frigid, 48-knot wind shifts or subsides, he said...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Cold Weather and Winds Send Planes Over College | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

Cambridge and the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) have had to steel themselves against the same conditions this week--a frigid environment...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Houses Cold Shoulder the ACSR | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

...languidly erotic Italian films just released in the U.S. Curiously enough, not only does each production star Antonelli, but each is a turn-of-the-century costume drama dealing ironically with the torment of a philandering husband cuckolded by a young wife whom he assumes to be hopelessly frigid. Naturally, given these similarities, it is the differences between the films that are most interesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: La Diff | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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