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...Jonestown-like encampment...
...centerpiece of the collection is an article that appeared in Esquire last year called "Entr'actes and Canapes," a series of short takes and pot shots about or at assorted trends, events and people of the seventies. Wolfe snipes at everything and everyone: the digital calculator, designer jeans, Roots, Jonestown, Woody Allen and the fall of South Vietnam...
Guyana Tragedy, which has been adapted by Ernest Tidyman from the Washington Post's quickie book on the Jonestown massacre, is as refined as it can be under the circumstances. There are some name actors (Ned Beatty, Colleen Dewhurst, LeVar Burton, James Earl Jones, Veronica Cartwright) in the cast, though several only have walk-on roles. The re-creations of the story's pivotal events are skillful enough to jog one's memories of the infamous TV news footage. Yet CBS may have erred on the side of caution. The movie's lengthy, dutiful depictions...
...review, has done plenty of fast cover drafting since he joined TIME in 1977. "Disaster and late-breaking cover stories have a way of striking whenever Walter is away," he says. "First, the New York City blackout in 1977; next, the election of Pope John Paul I; then, the Jonestown massacre. Last March we joked that nuclear disaster would arrive during his next vacation, and, sure enough, that's when Three Mile Island happened...
...following pages TIME presents the decade's memorable moments and fancied faces. The collection ranges from the triumph of the Bicentennial to the debacle of Saigon; from the grotesque suicides of Jonestown to the burlesgue success of Evil Knievel's Snake River plunge; and from the worst of Hearst to a terrific Tiegs...