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Far from being a pure and timeless island whereon youth can meet untrammeled to test body and spirit in the full glory of individual competition, the Olympics have become one ol the most dramatic and powerful political arenas of the century Palestinian terrorists understood that when in 1972 they crashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Boycott That Might Rescue the Games | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Like John Osborne's Angry Young Man of the '50s, the hero of Quadrophenia is named Jimmy. Estranged from his family and bored with his London mailroom job, he has become a member of the mods, a loose, nationwide gang of motorbike dandies that sprang up with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mod History | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Fate, working through coincidences, performs several kinds of malevolent interventions. In one brilliant scene. Jade's father, walking in Manhattan, spots David across the street and rushes after him in a rage; he is crushed to death in the traffic. Among other things, the book could be read as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Torch Song | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Originally, modern interest in ancient pagan practices was spurred by research early in this century by British Anthropologist Margaret Murray, who sought to dispel folklore that witches were invariably malevolent. But today's neopagan movement has its roots in the counterculture. Though many neopaganists live otherwise ordinary lives as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Preaching Pan, Isis and Om | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Along the way Tuggle takes a risk by surrounding Morris (Eastwood) with some of the most sentimentalized movie prisoners imaginable. There is an old-tuner called Doc (Roberts Blossom), who raises chrysanthemums and paints portraits, not to mention a literary librarian (Paul Benjamin) and a cuddly Italian (Frank Ronzio) with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fast Break | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

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