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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"If the higher court upholds the earlier ruling, I would consider it a moot point and say any more challenges would be futile," Sullivan said.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MBTA | 7/3/1979 | 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...

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

In the 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...

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

Besides being given to wiping away their past, many people, particularly writers, are prone to fabrication. Mark Twain could not resist a good story about himself, even if he had to make it up; William Butler Yeats dressed in colorful myths; and George Bernard Shaw found simple facts insufficiently expressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Biography Comes of Age | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

Very often the erroneous stories see print, properly buttressed by improper footnotes and references. Yet, if he persists long enough, the biographer can usually ferret out the facts about anybody.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Biography Comes of Age | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

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