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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What an ill-advised moment for Senator Kennedy to raise questions about the Shah [Dec. 17]! He just added fodder and fuel to Khomeini's fury and fires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Domeena C. Renshaw, M.D., Director Loyola Sexual Dysfunction Clinic Maywood, Ill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...many students fail the exams at all? A root cause is one that Law 815 ignores: overcrowding. Professors often lecture to classes of 1,500 students. Only 10% of Athens University's 45,000 students are housed in dorms. In addition, labs are ill-equipped, textbooks long outdated, libraries usually closed. Says Student Union President Christos Papoutsis about Law 815: "It's like trying to construct a building from the second floor up, having forgotten to put in the foundations and the first floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: On the March | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Adani, a Levantine of unspecified nationality, contains all the ruthlessness, greed, ill temper and bad manners heretofore ascribed to some Jewish studio heads. The unfortunate result is to create two stereotypes where one is more than enough. The characterization nevertheless has its uses. Adani sends a class operator to California to make a deal with Farber. He bears the elegant name of Guy Barrere and a resume that includes the Columbia University School of Journalism and Rolling Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roll 'Em | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

While there are some amusing moments in 1941, there is none of the spontaneity that makes for fun. The movie's premise is as overblown as its execution. 1941 seems to be composed of ill-matched parts of The Russians Are Coming, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Animal House, The War of the Worlds and I Wanna Hold Your Hand (also written by the Lorraine team of Zemeckis and Gale). Set around Los Angeles right after Pearl Harbor, the film shows what might have happened if panicky Californians had convinced themselves that they were under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bombs Bursting in Air | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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