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About the time that Soudan was opening his shipping firm, a man calling himself Bert Stem-fortyish, with gray hair and a vaguely Germanic accent-appeared in Piraeus, Greece, to hire a crew capable of working a supertanker. The load was to be 194,000 tons of Kuwaiti oil, to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH SEAS: Sinking a Supertanker | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

Though Remarque came to the plot early, his scenario is now familiar from too many other war movies: a group of boys go from school to training camp to the front lines, becoming men only to die. "You are our iron youth," their high school instructor (Donald Pleasence) tells them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Class of 1916 | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

E.D.T.) Scheduled behind Laverne & Shirley, this Soap spin-off is one of the season's few sure hits. Unfortunately, Writer Susan Harris has not capitalized on her secure ratings position by creating a daring and witty show. Benson is another sitcom dedicated to the tedious proposition that servants and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: 1 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

One reason Dracula remains forever undead is that no amount of cinematic miscalculation can entirely loosen his grip on our imaginations. Now he has proved that even an excess of good taste cannot entirely ground him. Not permitted to parody romantic menace as he was able to do on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stuffy Nonsense | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

Rosovsky's report discussed the logistics of a smaller graduate school and suggests several options for programs in a smaller school, but so far GSAS administrators have allowed individual departments to handle the consequences of the applicant drop themselves. Some departments, like the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, have...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: The Perils of the Perpetual Scholar | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

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