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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hell of a mess and that's nothing to be proud of. The people at Chrysler look great even if the balance sheet looks lousy. It all comes down to the marketplace. We have to go head-to-head with every car there, and the key is the 1 million front-wheel-drive cars that we'll have in 1981. They'll have the same interior dimensions, but they'll be shorter, lighter and get 7 m.p.g. more on average than the compacts and subcompacts that they will replace. We will be profitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lee lacocca's Hard Sell for Help | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...tale has been too oft told. It is the familiar show-biz saga of a nobody from nowhere who, through wile and gumption, achieves wealth, fame and glory as a dazzling superstar. In the case of Evita, this tale has been telescoped and occasionally tampered with. Most of the key events happen offstage. They are described in song and dance and recitative, but not dramatically rendered, so the musical lacks the warming pulse of intimacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Vogue of the Age: Carrion Chic | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Harold Prince directs with pile-driving force and thereby sacrifices the characters' personal emotions to visual and aural dynamics. If, as in Sweeney Todd, he has tossed away the key to the human heart, he is a master strategist of the stage. He deploys his acting troupes with brilliant precision at a crackling tempo. It is Prince, aided by a huge gray screen whose cyclopean eye brims with historic film clips, who hurls the dramatic thunderbolts of the evening. In two scenes of mass turbulence, with banners flying and the crowd in a hypnotic roar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Vogue of the Age: Carrion Chic | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...steam. With our bombing and mining making themselves felt, the North Vietnamese army was stalled. Our twin summits, in Peking and Moscow, had undoubtedly engendered a sense of isolation in the North. And they had greatly strengthened Nixon's domestic position, thus removing Hanoi's key weapon of leverage on us. In June we received the first inconclusive hints that Hanoi might be engaged in cease-fire planning. By the middle of September, the evidence was unmistakable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHITE HOUSE YEARS: PART 2 THE AGONY OF VIETNAM | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...game will swing on a few key factors...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Dog Day Afternoon: Hardly a Laughing Matter for Crimson | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

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