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...Ming the Merciless, Emperor of Mongo, is bent on destroying the earth and, failing that, making life as unpleasant as possible for Flash (Sam J. Jones), his girlfriend Dale Arden (Melody Anderson) and his pal Dr. Zarkov (Topol). The results of this obsession are colorful: large and small battles, peril to Dale's virtue ("Prepare her for my pleasure," intones Ming at one point), sundry bondage fantasies. The high points are a whip fight staged on a wildly tilting platform and a concluding conflict that features an attack by the Hawkmen, hearty barbarians who flap about on giant wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Comics into Film: Bam! Pow! Eek! | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...over much of the nation this summer killed nearly 10 million birds, or about 1% of the 1.25 billion commercial chickens alive and scratching in the U.S. at any one time. Drought drove up grain prices, making the fowl more expensive to feed and buy. Now comes still another peril: so-called exotic Newcastle disease, a viral disorder that attacks chickens as well as a wide variety of other birds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Animal Trackers | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...auto industry has begun. Moreover, Detroit's experience provides many lessons for other sectors of U.S. business. The most obvious is the need to avoid such industrial decline. A generation of neglect has sapped Detroit's competitive strength, and further delay would have put it in graver peril. Only the huge capital investment now being made has given American automakers the chance to survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit's Uphill Battle | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...quot;We are really talking about peril," Kuriloff says in the living room of her Brentwood apartment. She is an intense, frail-looking, girlish woman of 39 who moves about when she speaks, dashing to the bookshelf to verify a remembered fragment of poetry, changing chairs to find one whose compass bearing on the conversation is exactly right. When she listens, she cocks her head, nods emphatically -"Yes, yes, yes!"-leans forward in sympathy, sits back in surprise and pleasure, claps her hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Confronting the Empty Page | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...that overcomes a once vigorous adult who is suddenly struck down by this devastating, if usually tem porary, ailment. The victim's world quickly shrinks, often limited at the onset to bed or couch. Work and household chores are almost totally ignored, and every movement is fraught with peril. Dressing becomes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Aching Back! | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

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