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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around him. But the performance is a fraction of what it could have been. Maybe Langella is too good an actor to be frittered away on the screen. I don't mean that as an insult to films, but where else can an actor with no technical resources--a Jack Nicholson (good as he is), a Clint Eastwood, a Burt Reynolds--come off so well? Langella has broad features that express grand emotions, a voice as resonant and mellifluous as any in the American theater, and consummate physical control. In one scene in the stage Dracula, he brought...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Staking the Wild Vampire | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

Every time in the past couple of decades that a President has felt compelled to demonstrate to the world how tough he was we have been dragged deeper into trouble. A major cause of the Viet Nam involvement was Jack Kennedy's concern about machismo, and then Lyndon Johnson's determination to show that Texans did not back away from fights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Trying To Show His Toughness | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...alcoholism, liberalized rules governing contraception, and successfully led a long and bitter legislative campaign for legal abortion. The new "Euro-President" quickly gave the Parliament an early sample of the no-nonsense grit behind her gentle smile. When Protestant Ulster Unionist the Rev. Ian Paisley heckled Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch for delivering part of his speech in Irish Gaelic, Veil rapped her gavel and, in softly spoken French, effectively told him to shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Year of Women | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

Halfway through his victory lap, a spectator handed Sebastian Coe a hazel branch with the Union Jack attached. Holding the flag high, the slender Englishman rounded the track at Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway, while more than 16,000 spectators rose to a standing ovation. But it was not until he reached the athletes' reception center, where his fellow competitors applauded him, that Coe understood what the rumpus was about. Said he: "That really made what I did sink in for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Just How Low Can Coe Go? | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...Captain Jack Morse of the University Police said "the money is missing and they (Loeb officials) considered it a theft." Morse added they could not be sure how much was taken until the receipts are totalled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Loeb Summer Staff Reports $1600 in Weekend Revenues Missing From Publicity Office | 7/24/1979 | See Source »

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