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...grueling trek. Reason: to launch a new study of what could be one of the magnificent "Lost Cities" of the Andes. The remarkably well-preserved complex, known as Gran Pajaten, is thought to have been built by an advanced pre-Incan civilization almost 1,500 years ago. Archaeologist Thomas Lennon, head of the expedition, believes that once excavated, the ancient site may rival even Machu Picchu, one of the grandest Incan ruins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Lost City Revisited | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...decorated with stone carvings of birds, animals, geometric designs and human stick figures capped by feather headdresses. Colorful paint survives on some walls, and large swatches of fabric were found scattered among the burial sites. Terraced fields sculpted into the slope indicate sophisticated agricultural techniques. Perhaps most amazing, says Lennon, 3-ft.-high wood carvings on some building eaves have weathered the humid climate so well that their "assertively male" forms can still be seen. Marvels Anthropologist Jane Wheeler, co-leader of the study: "We have no idea why the carvings would be so perfectly preserved--but there they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Lost City Revisited | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

Joffe would also have been better off to let the movie speak for itself, rather than imposing a sappily obvious soundtrack. As Pran escapes through a Cambodian countryside literally littered with bodies, the gloomy music almost turns the horror into self-parody. Puccinni and John Lennon do not belong in the same movie, ever...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Cambodia Witness | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

...than one half of one percent [of those arrested] avoided the criminal justice system for mental health reasons ... less than 2 percent of this tiny portion successfully plead insanity." None of those who assassinated, or attempted to assassinate, Robert F. Kennedy '48, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon, President Gerald Ford or George Wallace, were acquitted by reason of insanity. John Hinckley was the highly publicized exception to a little used rule...

Author: By Nicolas J. Mcconnell, | Title: Love Means Never Having to Say You're Guilty | 11/17/1984 | See Source »

...Regards to Broad Street, a musical rock-fantasy feature film that he wrote and produced. But while it's getting better all the time for McCartney, the singer is still irked that he does not own the copyrights to most of the tunes he wrote with John Lennon, including some of those in the movie, due to a complicated legal battle they lost 15 years ago. McCartney is currently bidding to buy them back, though hardly for a song. Starting price: $30 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 29, 1984 | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

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