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...does not revel in too many lurid scenes of zany inmates being violent or bestial (though it has its share, enough to earn it an R rating). It does not idealize the mental institution as a citadel of scientific wisdom and compassion, nor caricature it as a latter-day Bedlam administered by sadists. It does not explain away its protagonist's schizophrenia with some unearthed childhood trauma, as if the condition were a sort of Freudian acrostic to be solved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape from Fantasy | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...blockbuster epics means that fewer experimental movies are being made. The state's once sassy underground press has become superfluous, even insipid. Rock groups like Eagles, who once celebrated the ambience of their adopted state with songs like Peaceful Easy Feeling, now look on California as a latter-day Weimar Republic inhabited by ghoulish sybarites and double-knit hucksters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: What Ever Happened to California? | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...throws rightie), he sprays the field like a grounds keeper's sprinkler; inside pitches are pulled, outside pitches go rocketing into left field, and, on the odd occasion when a careless hurler puts one down the pipe, the ball goes up the middle. Opponents cannot concoct a latter-day version of the Williams Shift-loading the defense to blanket a portion of the park-in hopes of stopping Carew. He thus has a lot of territory where they ain't. His ability to hit to all fields, coupled with natural speed and bunting prowess, is Carew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball's Best Hitter Tries for Glory | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...huge and prosperous empire of Mormonism is all built upon a single rock: the claim that Joseph Smith Jr. was a prophet of God who miraculously discovered and translated long-lost holy scriptures. Ever since the Book of Mormon was published in 1830 it has been embraced by his Latter-Day Saints (current worldwide membership: 3.8 million) and scoffed at by outsiders. Now four California researchers, relying on the sometimes shaky science of handwriting analysis, say they have evidence that the book is a hoax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormon Mystery | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...with procedure, and he has an accounting machine in his head," says Producer Robert Evans. A few clients still receive personal treatment, including Steve McQueen, who had left Creative Management Associates before it was acquired by I.C.M. Josephson lured him to I.C.M., suggesting the possibility of his playing a latter-day Rhett Butler. Though Josephson is often seen watering his clients at the Beverly Hills Hotel Polo Lounge, he shuns Hollywood glitter and lives quietly in a Manhattan penthouse with his second wife. He strenuously avoids personal publicity, preferring to maintain the I.C.M. image of dignity and professionalism. Says longtime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Sherpas of the Subclause | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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