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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last summer in the Chester County prison farm for stealing $2 worth of gas from a farmer. Released on bail, he was promptly sent back to the farm for stealing a pickup truck. Little Bruce was despondent because he had been planning to marry his girlfriend, pretty Robin Miller, 15, who lived on a farm in nearby Oxford. But he resolved to follow the family maxim: "Do your time or don't commit the crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: It Was Pennsylvania Gothic | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Imagine Truffaut's Jules and Jim with Laurel and Hardy in the title roles. Imagine Bunuel's Tristana with a new screenplay by Henry Miller. Imagine-well, what's the point? There really isn't any way to anticipate the special charms of Get Out Your Handkerchiefs. This rhapsodic French comedy about men, women and sex is an honest-to-God original with its own challenging brands of humor, style and wisdom. It is the first revolutionary film to come out of France since the decline of the New Wave in the late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Frontiers | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...last of the international troubadours, a public man as recognizable on American campuses as he is on his own soil. Literary and political celebrities throng these pages: Poets Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Richard Wilbur are among the many translators; Senator Edward Kennedy and Playwright Arthur Miller contribute moving forewords. Several poems recall encounters with Robert Lowell. Robert Kennedy, Boris Pasternak and Marc Chagall. By all customary standards Voznesensky should be thoroughly corrupted by recognition and applause. Instead, his work has retained its pure, almost elemental force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Periscope of The Buried Dead | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

John Fishwick squashed Williams' number five man Peter Thompson in four games, while sixth man Jeff Secrest outslugged Bill Miller...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Racquetmen Swing Past Williams, 7-2 | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

...over the SCM Corp.'s $1.5 billion antitrust suit against Xerox. Pretrial discovery took 3½ years ("Not bad, considering," says Newman), during which the judge had to write 46 separate opinions on procedural motions alone; such motions can be another delaying tactic that, in the words of Miller, is "limited only by a lawyer's demonic imagination." When the case got to trial, each side estimated it would take three or four months to present their cases. But after three months, SCM was nowhere near finished, so Newman set a time limit of six more months. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Why Those Big Cases Drag On | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

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