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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book does not trace her career's development chronologically, but instead juxtaposes incidents by theme rather than by time sequence. While the early chapters describe childhood and adolescence in a fairly straightforward manner--"because my life followed a pattern then"--the later ones, describing her development as an actress, mix past and present, like a mind that jumps spontaneously from one thought to another. "Even if I were to sit down here and describe my career to you," she says, "I wouldn't be precise and orderly; I would go from event to event." Indeed, she attributes her love...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: An Actor's Actress | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

...result of costly ($50,000 each) center-pivot irrigation machines that automatically propel themselves around the fields in a circle. Some of the strawberries that Americans buy and eat are cloned. Yes, cloned. The process in brief: plant tissue is mushed up, placed in a clear, jelly-like mix of nutrients and injected with hormones

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...ignored. In the '30s Shaw sang a chant of social significance; the tales are filled with laborers and struggling families indistinguishable from Clifford Odets or Arthur Miller characters. But by the '40s he had found his own voice, a Shavian mix of irony and poignance. Since then the supple prose has been, like Cheever's, dominated by sexual themes and by the attempt to lend common experiences and ordinary people a secular grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Secular Grace | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Tehran University, 20,000 students gathered peacefully on the campus to shout anti-Shah slogans and mix with opposition political leaders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iran Will Release Prisoners In Apparent Reaction to Protests | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

Increases in the manganese levels "are due to the water in the reservoirs turning over," said Seites. "When the water temperature reaches 59 degrees Fahrenheit, it starts to mix." The warmer water from the bottoms of the ponds carries manganese up to the top, he explained...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Authorities Insist Dirty Water Does Not Pose Health Hazard | 11/1/1978 | See Source »

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