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Reprisal Fear. Still, the impossible Moluccan illusion is unlikely to fade, even in defeat. The terrorists are children or grandchildren of 4,000 Moluccan soldiers and their dependents who left their Indonesian archipelago in 1951 out of fear of reprisals for supporting the Dutch against the Indonesian independence movement. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: The Commandos Strike at Dawn | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

Speed lay in little pools all over the coffee table's scarred mahogany veneer. Small white tablets, slouched in little nests, elbowing for room rolling off on to the floor. Speed. Methedrine slows everything down; people talk slower, move slower, time passes more slowly. There was a perverse logic to...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Any last words, buddy? | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

The lanky-dark-haired guy, who looked a little older than the rest was obviously going to be the morning's prize. Martin had been happy to tell Louise that he was a grad student in government and a House tutor, very much under the illusion that his status gave...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: A smile, a giggle and a stare... | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

MIME IS AN art that can speak powerfully without making a sound. It takes drama a step further believably portraying not only emotions, but solid objects, where none really exist. Mime demands more attention and participation from the audience than straight drama, because each movement is significant to an understanding...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Illusion as a Mirror | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

Nashville. It's all been said before, but we'll repeat it for the umpteenth time: Nashville comes as close to breakthrough as a film can these days, and it will come to rub shoulders with 8 1/2, Grand Illusion and other charter members in the pantheon of cinema. Robert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 5/12/1977 | See Source »

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