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...genteel Christopher Plummer in the role of the heroine's betrayed husband. The movie has three types of scenes: briefing scenes, bombing scenes and tearoom scenes. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish among them because every set in the film, indoors and out, is flooded with mist. The sound track is inundated with John Barry's crashing score, next to which Michel Legrand's florid music for Summer of '42 sounds like Hindemith. Yet the plot does somehow manage to emerge. About halfway into Hanover Street, both of the heroine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bombs Away | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...mist was still rising from the damp field near Frederick, Colo. Not the most popular hour for a wedding, but certainly the most congenial time for ballooning in the early morning breezes. After solemnly repeating their vows, Diane Baumbach, 39, a secretary, and Jerry Weiman, 33, an amusement park employee, clambered into the bridal balloon, which was decked with a rope of carnations, satin bows and dangling tin cans. Touching down an hour later, the newlyweds celebrated with champagne while onlookers recited the balloon prayer, beginning: "The winds have welcomed you with softness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: More Spectacle Than Ritual | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...party composed of strong and combative factions, this led to open vote buying, bribery and scandal. With former Premier Kakuei Tanaka now on trial in the Lockheed influence-peddling scandal, the L.D.P. decided to try to clean up its image as a party of feuding bosses and "black mist" (bribe money) by choosing their leader this time in a kind of national primary in which all 1.5 million party members would be eligible to vote (87% did). Fukuda emphasized his foreign policy accomplishments, such as the recent ratification of a peace treaty with China. Ohira, who as party secretary-general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Bull Wins | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Eleven crimson and eleven silver flecks of light danced under an indigo mist in the lurid last minutes of a Harvard-Brown game that held 23,000 at Harvard Stadium entranced on Saturday afternoon...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Crimson Loses 31-30 Thriller In Last Minute | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...weather was dismal in Tenerife that day, with low-scudding clouds and fog sharply reducing visibility. From the western end of the strip, shrouded from the view of both the control tower and the KLM crew, Pan Am Captain Victor Grubbs was nosing his 747 through the mist toward the Dutch plane. Twice Grubbs radioed the tower, on a frequency shared by KLM, that he was still on the runway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Flashback | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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