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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party over? Not when a three-day jail sentence for first offenders, which has been agreed to by judges in Quincy, Mass., is considered stern. Five years would be more fitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 1982 | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

Although the foreign press corps in Argentina has swelled to 740, reports from there were distressingly thin. Foreign correspondents were ordered out of the areas closest to the Falklands, and three British journalists, arrested April 13 and charged with being spies, remained in jail in Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world. Reporting was not much easier in Buenos Aires. "The big thing is access," says David Miller, bureau manager of the 27-strong CBS team, "and we just don't have it. In most countries the military will set up show-and-tell sessions. Not here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Covering an Uncoverable War | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...situations, but remains cliche ridden; rests at Free Parking with no penalty, thanks to its honest, if flawed effort. Third move: Death-trap takes the luxury of using homosexuality as a heavy-handed plot manipulation, $75 dollar luxury tax levied. Final move: Partners opens. Send the producers to jail. Directly, And make them give me back my four dollars...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Do Not Pass Go | 5/11/1982 | See Source »

...film, a wounded Kerwin decides to fight for his life. Perhaps he finds strength because he successfully solved a murder case. No, we are told, he was just lucky. He decides life is worth living because Benson promises him a "new apartment...with a custom-built kitchen." The producers jail this homosexual in the kitchen. Archie Bunker wouldn't be happier...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Do Not Pass Go | 5/11/1982 | See Source »

...house is well staffed with all three. Unseen on an upper floor is the dying Tinkbell, a butler before whom employers cringe, quite apart from guests. The current butler and harried man-of-all-work, Maitland (Donal Donnelly), has done five years in jail as a conscientious objector. He is a flavorsome cousin of Bernard Shaw's servants, brimming with querulous grievance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Owl of Wisdom | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

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