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Cronenberg is a genuine writer-director-a man of vivid ideas and images. He can sculpt extravagant premises into scary narratives; he can clothe his plots in sinuous camera movements and dynamite film tricks. What he cannot do is write or direct convincing dialogue. Sophisticated actors tend to sound silly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Is the Way the World Ends | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

That was too little too late to suit many critics. Earlier this month several leaders of the legal community assembled in the Cash Room of the Treasury Department to enter their pleas before the quadrennial salary commission. Some of the testimony was melodramatic. Said Federal District Court Judge Charles Joiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Case of the Bench vs. the Buck | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

After injuries to police officers during a 1971 demonstration at Stanford University, police armed only with a warrant walked into the offices of the Stanford Daily and began a search. Their objective: unpublished photographs that they hoped would help them identify the assailants. The student newspaper sued local officials over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Press Privacy | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

Mainly, Church portrays himself as Idahoan to the core. A campaign leaflet shows him in Western garb toting a shotgun, by a barbed-wire fence. Declares his campaign literature: "Church puts Idaho first." The Senator claims that he has responded to 110,000 pleas for assistance since he was first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Rowdy Campaign of Personalities | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

The prospect that faces us, if the administration succeeds in buying a vested financial interest in the work of some faculty, is an exceedingly unpleasant one. Having invested substantial sums in the work of Professor X in the hope of reaping great financial rewards, the administration will necessarily attempt to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Grave Threat' | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

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