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WHILE McPhee subtly leads one to gentle meditation and an appreciation of sanity in even the wildest frontiersman, McGinnis plunges into the underside of the Alaska myth, where the American Dream in its last pure expression rips rapidly across the forests and tundra in an oily fever of seedy opportunism...

Author: By Francis MARK Muro, | Title: The Ragged Edge | 11/7/1980 | See Source »

On Oct. 5, Vinogradov met with Iranian Prime Minister Raja'i and declared that Moscow was ready to provide military assistance to Tehran. Raja'i, a devout Muslim fundamentalist, flatly rejected the offer and criticized Moscow for its opportunism. "Nothing you may give us is worth our freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIAN GULF: Choosing Up Sides | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

Caught in the middle of these conflicts, Jimmie Blacksmith is routinely abused and cheated by the white farmers he worked for, at the same time he is contemptuous of the half-drunken mysticism of the Aborigines, now to be forever kept on the outskirts of a completely foreign civilization. Blacksmith...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: A Gradual Terror | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

For that reason the audience approves of Jimmie Blacksmith's opportunism--a way of getting up and beyond the social constraints of white Australia. Tommy Lewis presents a fascinating character, and yet there's something wrong in his eyes. It's nearly impossible to pin down his expression. He is...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: A Gradual Terror | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

The Secaucus Seven, arrested in Secaucus, New Jersey on the way to a Washington demo with an ounce of dope and a rifle in the back of their rented station wagon, have gone on to live decent, modest lives. No longer violent in their opposition to "the system," they have...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Progress Report | 10/8/1980 | See Source »

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