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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Last Resort (Sept. 19, CBS, 8 p.m E.D.T.) Late last season all three networks hatched Animal House sitcoms only to end up with a short-lived trio of turkeys. Three strikes and out, right? Wrong. In television, bad ideas don't fade away; they become cottage industries. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: II | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

If Pioneer lacked a sharp eye, it made up for that deficiency with its other sensors. Last week, as scientists at NASA'S Ames Research Center near San Francisco skimmed data transmitted during the spacecraft's flyby of Saturn, they made an exciting discovery. While Pioneer was close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bonanza from a Ringed Planet | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Martin has constructed the play so skillfully that past and present join to form an artful mosaic. Though they never appear onstage, all those close to Stein, particularly her brother Leo and her lover Alice B. Toklas, are given life by her recounting. To help her memorize her difficult role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Spell of Words | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Everyone should be as un-copable as Erma Bombeck, the frumpy suburban housewife who masquerades as a success ful syndicated columnist and morning-show television commentator about things frivolous and familiar. Two months before publication, Bombeck's latest volume, Aunt Erma's Cope Book, has one of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Despite the reverence in which he is held, the Dalai Lama does not regard himself as a god. "I am a human being: a Buddhist monk," he says. But he is the reincarnation of his predecessor and became Dalai Lama in the traditional way. At the age of two, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Am a Human Being: a Monk | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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