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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't work in Hollywood again until 1976. It's good to have you back, Jane, but Klute almost sustained us through those barren years. Somehow thrillers where the characters matter seem richer in atmosphere and tension--and Fonda's Bree Daniels, the call-girl who is the object of a shadowy killer, involves us so totally that the girl-in-the-abandoned-warehouse routine at the end doesn't even appear schematic (well, it does, but we're still scared to death). You gotta credit Alan J. Pakula though, who here, as in All the President...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fonda in Shadow | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...pinkish glow, which means that she loves people. Archetypal Dowser MacLean, who still works as a chemical engineer in Portland, claims he can divine the arrival of oil tankers even when they are still far beyond the horizon. He adds: "Doesn't make any difference how far the object is if you have the power." California Dowser Jack Livingston professes to have spotted water as far as a continent away. Why don't the dowsers use their gift for predicting the outcome of a race or the future price of a stock? "Not ethical," snaps MacLean. "You should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Is Dowsing Going to the Dogs? | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...Court of Flags at Los Angeles City Hall and memorized the schedule of police patrols. Then with the timing of a terrorist bomber, he drove up to the plaza in a truck on Labor Day morning, and with four friends unloaded a 3,000-lb., 13-ft. turquoise object that looks something like a huge tuning fork. Wrapped in yellow paper, the untitled work was an unsolicited gift from Wade Cornell, 32, self-styled "guerrilla artist" who boasts: "I give to the people directly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Ars Longa, Vita Brevis | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...other object of anguished controversy was the city of Jerusalem, which was omitted entirely from the Camp David agreement. In another letter released last week, Sadat argued that East Jerusalem should be under Arab sovereignty, that all of the city's holy places should be controlled by their respective religious groups and that the essential functions of the city should be administered by a municipal council with equal numbers of Arab and Israeli members. "In this way," said Sadat, "the city shall be undivided." In Begin's letter, he uncompromisingly restated he Israeli position that "Jerusalem is one city indivisible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter's Swift Revival | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...degree, that is changing. Because industrial peace is so vital to the white supremacist government of Prime Minister John Vorster, labor inspectors seldom object to the bending of apartheid rules even in South African-owned plants. Since the presence of the multinationals is much valued by the regime, they enjoy even more latitude in defying apartheid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America's South African Dilemma | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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