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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...object to my subconscious being tampered with, whatever the purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1979 | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Assassin, unwittingly reveals just how impossible this feat of emotional empathy is. The horror of the crime repells us; we are haunted by the image of our own face screaming in the last minutes of life. A Theodore Bundy-style murder dehumanizes the victim, turning a person into an object. Horrified yet fascinated, we devour the newspaper clippings; each gruesome detail imprints itself on our memory. We become transfixed by the terrifyingly personal nature of random death--the element of chance strips us of all defenses. As a result, any film which tries to minimize the enormity of the crime...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Gross and Stupid | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

Gazit added that Israel would not object to a dialogue with the PLO if it renounced its charter and gave up its terrorist tactics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shlomo Gazit Strongly Supports Israeli Presence on West Bank | 10/3/1979 | See Source »

...coincidence. Writing in Nature last May, they suggested that what they might be seeing was two images of the same quasar. How was this possible? More than half a century ago, scientists realized a bizarre consequence of Einstein's general relativity theory: if a very massive object were located almost directly between the earth and a distant star, its tremendous gravity would act as a "gravitational lens" that could bend the starlight into two different paths. To produce the effect observed at Kitt Peak, the astronomers calculated, a huge galaxy or a black hole at least 10 trillion times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Mysterious Celestial Twins | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...Indians do not refer to their women as "squaws" -this is a demeaning term used only by whites-and though I have often been the object of sexism it wounds me deeply that TIME would stoop to racism in an attempt to make a joke. The Indian I portray in this film is no joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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