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...thinks the archive will do just fine without him. "Maybe in 50 years no one will be able to read-hen the collection will be more valuable than ever," he suggests. "Human history is like being a pilgrim to Jerusalem-two steps forward, one back. And folks worry about technology. Personally, I like it. When I can't sleep, I listen to Bach on my Sony Walkman. That's progress." And that's the real side view from Bettmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From Freud to Bicycling Monks | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...wanting to know the hostages' attitude toward the press. Did Schorr expect a testimonial from them, or would he have been just as happy (since TV interviewers like to elicit on-screen emotion) had someone flared at him? Afterward, NBC's Linda Ellerbee, mad as a wet hen, complained on the air about "the controlled scene," the "sort of official line" she had heard, and the welcome home-type questions-instead of the presumably sharp ones she would have asked. Over on CBS, Morton Dean was curious as to why only 41 of the 52 hostages were present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Excluded from the Big Moment | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...careers from cutesie-poo dream sequences to bondage-and-discipline revenge, from a giggly hen party to an answer to the working woman's prayer: a "liberated" work space, complete with racial harmony, reformed alcoholics, a day-care center and athletic amputees vaulting merrily from wheelchair to desk chair. Through the ordeal, Lily and Dolly prove themselves game professionals. Tomlin is a crackerjack comic actress, even when the confection is stale, and Parton has as fetching a way with a line of dialogue as she has with the curve of an angora sweater. Only Fonda succumbs: she plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stenos, Anyone? | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...exception, though, is one totally mysterious digital game with a bespectacled plastic hen perched on its dashboard. It's called I Took a Lickin' from a Chicken, and when you're outperformed the bird does a little convulsive dance and cackles throatily...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Every Child a Deity | 12/9/1980 | See Source »

...reasoned that the 3% commitment, which he had vigorously favored at a 1978 European summit, "needs to be looked at anew." With only 5.3% inflation and 3.8% unemployment, West Germany is better off than many of its neighbors, but Schmidt warned in a television interview, "We are not the hen that laid the golden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: The Chancellor Comes Calling | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

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