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Charles builds a model of the house, furnishes it and plays moodily with a Laura doll, a husband doll, a daughter. In the state government office where he works (the state happens to be Utah, though not much is made of the fact, and the film's lo cation could just as easily have been Penn sylvania), he shoves papers into his Out box without reading them and swigs vod ka from a pint in his desk drawer. Laura does not call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rah! Rah! Rah!? | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...lawyer, Rodolfo Guzzi, in a plain envelope postmarked Sept. 8, Brooklyn, N.Y. It shows Sindona, gaunt and pale, hair unwashed and jowls unshaved, seated on a plain wooden chair. A cardboard sign covering his chest carries an ominous message crudely printed by his purported kidnapers: IL GIUSTO PROCESSO LO FAREMO NOI (The fair trial will be conducted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Mystery Photo | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

With the air pressure that had built up in the cabin and cockpit as the plane climbed, the aft bulkhead buckled, apparently because of an almost invisible 12-in. crack. The sudden decompression blew off the entire nonpressurized tail cone-a lO-ft.-long metal shell serving mainly to streamline the fuselage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Air Scares | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Director Yates, whose best previous work has been in action films like Bullitt, here demonstrates a very nice light touch, as well as a gift for getting full documentary value out of his lo cation. There are a few moments when the picture's easygoing pace turns into wobbliness, but these are insignificant compared with its many moments of shrewd insight into the lives of amusingly shaded but very recognizable human beings. This is the kind of small, star less film that big studios sometimes do not know what to do with. Audiences should have no such difficulty. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cutups | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...Ganymede, photographing a tortured, cratered sphere whose cracked and faulted icy crust may indicate moonquakes. It took a closer look at Europa, which revealed an intricate lattice work of veinlike lines that may represent shallow fissures in an icy sea. Finally, Voyager 2 shifted its electronic gaze to lo, the innermost and most spectacular of the Galilean moons. Four months ago, Voyager 1 had spotted eight volcanoes in the midst of eruption, the first time such activity was observed other than on earth. Last week its successor photographed six of the same eruptions, suggesting to the U.S. Geological Survey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: It's the Robots' Turn, by Jove! | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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