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As the highly regarded head of the nation's eleventh largest industrial corporation, 53-year-old Lyman Hamilton Jr. had a future that appeared to be bright and secure. Yet the affable, mild-mannered president and chief executive officer of ITT had just returned from a three-week swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Welcome Home, You're Fired | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

Even in their worst moments, for example, the classic Frankenstein films were never so rhetorical and loftily mannered as the language of the novel. And familiar settings, characters, and actions are missing. Where is Frankenstein's marvelous laboratory? What has happened to the big creation scene?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man-Made Monster | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

Claudio is meant to be a dullard aristocrat, insensitive and unpoetic--his highest flights of imagination produce feeble lines like Redford's sulky performance is sufficiently imperceptive but occasionally mannered, Shohet's graceful but hard to judge, since she has so few lines.

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Dons, Dummies and Directors | 7/10/1979 | See Source »

The Rangers, who have had eight coaching changes in ten years, responded as though given a new lease on their careers. Shero's Philadelphia teams had been noted for their rugged style of hockey, and the mild-mannered Rangers initially feared that they would be forced into the Flyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Miracle on 33rd Street | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

Played by George Hamilton (and very nicely too), he is booted out of Transylvania by the humorless Communists who are going to turn Castle Dracula into a sports and recreation center. The count decides to go to New York City in pursuit of Model Cindy Sondheim (Susan Saint James), whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Count of New York | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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