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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This movie contains what may well be the year's funniest sequence. It consists simply of a very old woman, bent almost double under the weight of her senility, inching painfully and in total silence across a room to serve tea to a pair of gentlemen earnestly conversing, trying not to embarrass her by calling attention to her infirmity. Eventually she arrives at her destination, spills the contents of the tray as she sets it down, then departs as slowly and silently as she arrived. Her master and his guest gamely go along with the pretense that the retainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Random Number | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...present instance a pair of bisexual males (Sami Frey and Mario Gonzalez) are cohabiting with a dim but agreeable young woman (Christine Murillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fun Anarchy | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

During the next month, the pair will take their campaign to 52 cities. They will meet newspaper editors and appear on talk shows and at union rallies. The bills for the $150,000 trip will be covered by the $5,000 fee they charge for speeches before college audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tom and Jane vs. Big Business | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...seemed. Winners of four world titles and two Olympic medals in the 1960s, the Protopopovs were hailed for pioneering the ballet style in pair skating. They also appeared to exemplify political orthodoxy. Unlike Bolshoi Ballet Defectors Alexander Godunov and Leonid and Valentina Kozlov, the Protopopovs were Communist Party members. They were showered with official Soviet honors, including the Lenin Prize and the prestigious title Honored Master of Sport of the Soviet Union. Though touring Soviet athletes and performing artists are always scrutinized for any sign of a desire to defect, the widely traveled Protopopovs aroused no suspicions when they left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Scooting Away on Skates | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...days later, a pair of Oakland P.D. vice-squad officers parked around the corner from the Halvoniks' house and deployed a Bushnell Spacemaster, a telescope with a zoom lens that can magnify up to 45 times beyond the capability of the naked eye. Sure enough, the plants on the balcony were pot. A few hours later, armed with a search warrant, the seeing-eye detectives returned and counted 323 marijuana plants growing around the house. Inside, they found two lids of smokable grass and almost half an ounce of cocaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Tale of Pot and Politics | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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