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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...touch on those hints of boldness and desperation that are implicit in the text. Robin Ellis might have brought to Acton more of the shrewdness and tart ness of his Poldark. As presented, the pair are so agreeable and handsome that one sees no reason for them not to get together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Correct Form | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Even a demonstrably lesser drama, such as Ladyhouse Blues at Manhattan's Theater of St. Peter's Church, shows the deep affinity linking the family with the emotions and experiences that fire up a stage. Within the family-sometimes at scalding intensity-we get our first inklings of the nature of love, hate, time, memory, remorse and reconciliation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Life with Ma | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...week countdown on the use of radioactive materials." Harvard University and the University of Washington in Seattle, which use the isotopes for bio-medical research, have curtailed some projects. Declares James Summers, a radiation safety officer at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center: "If we can't get rid of the stuff, we're going to have to cut back on research and testing; we can't just fill up the basement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dump Slump | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...back into orbit. Rarely has so much energy been packed into so small a package. Rooney dances, he sings, he mugs, he dresses in drag. Even when he's offstage, he's on, and his raucous laugh can be heard from the wings. "Seldom does a person get a second chance in life," he says. "Up until Sugar Babies, Mickey Rooney was a famous has-been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Andy Hardy Comes Home | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...because, like a father, he taught us how to take what comes and then come back," Parker explained after Stargell had won the Most Valuable Player award in the National League playoffs. "He showed us how to strike out and walk away calmly, lay the bat down gently, then get up the next time and get a home run. From him we learned not to get too high on the good days or too low on the bad days, because there's plenty of both in this game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pops Go the Pirates | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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