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...find their echoes here in Charlotte Rampling, Marie-Christine Barrault and Jessica Harper. Allen also appropriates Fellini's strategy of deflecting criticism by placing it in his film-in the mouths of buffoons. Predators and editors, gargoyles and groupies, all want a piece of his present and a lock on his future-his promise to make the kind of romantic comedies that established his cult, which for him means a return to the played-out past. He rejects this advice, but he can't escape it. He even dreams of encountering an extraterrestrial who tells him: "You want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Comic Master Goes for Baroque | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...attach themselves to the intruder's surface and help destroy the invader. They are highly efficient and selective; each antibody is so exquisitely designed that it matches up precisely with only one site on the invader or antigen, almost as if it were a key fitting into a lock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Quest for a Magic Bullet | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

Striking would be illegal, and the city would ask state administrative agencies or the courts to block a lock-out, Sullivan said...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City Workers Union Rejects Contract | 8/5/1980 | See Source »

Bafaloukos also has a terrific sense of humor that pops up most often when his camera captures the white tourists to Kingston. One idiotically chic couple (he wears an Andy Warhol Interview T-shirt) lock the keys in their car and have to hire a Rasta locksmith. But the clincher comes earlier, at a club restaurant where Horsemouth's band plays fast-paced reggae. A bewildered blond tourist turns to his young bride and exclaims, "This isn't calypso...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Soothing the Savage Beast | 7/25/1980 | See Source »

...What I should have done, at least someone should have done it, was to get up and reprimand them for their treatment of Anderson. They were outright rude to Anderson because he had a different view . . . I resented, after I left, that sort of quizzing in public, trying to lock us in on every little detail that the National Rifle Association might promote. The right-to-life groups are pretty much the same. You have to take a litmus test every five minutes or you're considered wavering. What we should have said in New Hampshire is, 'Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: They Thought They Were Better | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

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