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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bessie's great-granddaughter, Jane Disinger, 23: "My friends are bringing up their kids more the way our parents were brought up. We've seen a lot of kids go too far with drugs and stuff, and the ones who have babies now don't want that to happen to their children. I think we've realized that you need some rules and regulations. One extreme is not much better than the other ... People may think you're a little weird around here, but they don't bother you. The rule in Muncie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Voices from the Heartland | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...American movie this year. Moses not only is an amusing variant on the classic lonely guy, private-eye character, but Screenwriter Simon, adapting his own novel, also employs him for purposes of wry and rueful social observation. The well-plotted mystery tale quite compassionately reveals how a lot of '60s radicals have signed on with the System that was once thought to be their enemy, and are uneasily but profitably doing all right as a result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Private Eye Full of Wry | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Winthrop denies that he did much active campaigning before the election. "I talked to the people I know, and I just happen to know a lot of people," Winthrop said after the election...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: A Winthrop for the Student Assembly | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...APPROACH seemed more consciously campy, and the actors really forced it (especially Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer, better known as the Howells). There was one good line--Ginger said the tidal wave sounded like a "permanent wave"--but I don't remember the old show having a lot of puns, either. The original was so infantile that at times it seemed to belong to a different universe, like an Ionesco play; on reflection one could almost call some of it "inspired." But Rescue was so forced that it just got boring, which is what the old show never...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: A Forced Rescue | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...each other. Julia shows Henry the finer points of gold prospecting, while he applies himself to Julia's education in bed. "You can always tell a virgin on account of the whites of the eyes aren't clear," Henry assures her. "I don't want to brag a lot, but I have on occassion put a gal or two in tune with nature." Undaunted, the feisty Julia spits back, "I'm sure nature is grateful...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: A Misbegotten Marriage | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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