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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shell-shocked, Lansing Lamont slogged through the battlefields of the nation's most prestigious universities, fending off grade frenzy, resisting sexual anarchy, getting the material for the folks back home. Why top-ranked schools? "Hell, I didn't want to go out somewhere to some Animal House, where there are no serious academics really, but those places that provide material for the leadership posts," Lamont explained in a recent interview...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Speaking for Himself | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

Alien begins with a succession of long, slow pans through a spaceship, like 2001 without the Strauss. I was rocking in my seat with excitement: what movie would dare to have such a boring beginning if it weren't going to be scary as hell later? Unfortunately, those opening shots set the tempo for the whole film, with the alien's attacks serving as shrieking exclamation points...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Beast in All of Us | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

...first film, you may remember, the newly dead began coming back to life and feeding on the living. (Nobody knows why, although one of Dawn's characters offers this explanation: "My grandfather used to tell us, 'When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth'"). If a zombie doesn't completely consume someone, that person also comes back to life and eats flesh. You can permanently kill them by shooting them or bashing them in the head, but since they multiply rather fast, well--one way or another, they're gonna find you, they...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Beast in All of Us | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

During the 1960s, the motorcycle gang known as the Hell's Angels roared its way through the California Dream, its leather-jacketed and swastikaed members terrorizing entire towns with lead pipes and bike chains. It now appears that the gang has turned itself into a conglomerate of sorts: 18 Angels were arraigned in San Francisco on conspiracy charges, and federal officials claimed in a 31-page indictment that the gang trafficked extensively in illegal drugs, including heroin, cocaine, LSD and speed. They also contended that gang members had murdered and threatened murder in order to protect their share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hell's Angels | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...part that I'm playing," he was also quick to add, "Some of John Wayne must come through it." It came through most clearly when people would tell him, "Everything isn't black and white," and he would inevitably respond, "Well, I say, 'Why the hell not?' " There was a refreshing innocence, a kind of bravery in that attitude, especially as the power of the Western myth dimmed. His heroes were not like Hemingway's. They did not have grace under pressure; they had instead a stubbornness -foolish, willful and glorious-when they were caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Duke: Images from a Lifetime | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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