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...South. Chris Kirby, a courthouse librarian in Orlando, hauls weighty law books all day long; not once during working hours, she complains, has a man ever opened a door for her, much less offered to cart the books. "But let me go out at night with nothing heavier than an evening bag," she goes on, "and three men will open the door for me. There's something about that I don't quite understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's New Manners | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...quite possible to attend Despair in the wrong frame of mind, having worked one's emotions into shape for piano moving, so to speak, only to find that there is nothing heavier than a seltzer bottle or a nightgown being lifted. Despair is, in fact, a light and lavender comedy about a crazed Russian émigré named Hermann Hermann, who watches in amazement as his mind splits like his name, into two equal parts. The film is set in Berlin. Based on a 1936 novel written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov, it is hopeless in mood, but most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Doubled Up | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...heavy mixed boat wasn't the only co-ed eight that challenged the Charles Sunday. A rather plucky and very light crew also rowed and finished a remarkable fourteenth. The lightweights set back 26 crews, almost all of whom were heavier than them--by about...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Mixing Things Up | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

There would be some benefits, to be sure. Heavier rainfall would possibly restore Africa's extremely dry Sahel, the Sahara and the Arabian desert to their ancient fertility and make vast tracts in Siberia and Canada suitable for growing cereal grains. But the rich wheat and corn belt in the central U.S. would probably become too dry for these crops. Hundreds of millions of people might suffer from these dislocations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Warming Earth? | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...weeks, using a long wooden holder for his view finder. "When I started to direct this film," he said, "I already had a heavy responsibility as director and co-author of the screenplay, and had a part in the production of the film. Now it's an even heavier responsibility with the casts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 11, 1978 | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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