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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wide streak of sadism. His films have been highly influential to Godard, among others, whose praise and tribute has lifted Fuller to a sort of cult status. Shock Corridor--starring no one you've ever heard of before--concerns a journalist who, in hopes of earning a Pulitzer prize, disguises himself as a patient in an insane asylum to discover the identity of a murderer hiding there. Other patients include a nuclear physicist, a Tennessee boy convinced he's in the midst of the Civil War, and a roomful of scantily clad nymphomaniacs, all of whom give the hero something...

Author: By --larry Shapiro, | Title: Raw Knuckles on Film | 8/3/1979 | See Source »

...arrival of Bill Miller in the elegant third-floor corner office of the Treasury Building will lead to some changes in style. He is the kind of "team player" that Carter seems to prize. From his days as chairman of the Textron Corp., Miller has had a reputation for arguing hard and voicing stinging criticism behind closed doors; out in public, however, he joins ranks and forcefully presents the majority position. But Miller can also be stubborn. Blumenthal discovered this last spring when he tried to lean hard on his old friend Bill to have the Fed raise interest rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Changing the Economic Team | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...worldwide outcry over the refugees has only just begun to have an effect on Hanoi-but as for getting out of Cambodia, the Vietnamese so far have been adamant. Ironically, it is Politburo Member Le Due Tho, the winner along with Henry Kissinger of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, who is said to be directing Viet Nam's civil operations in Cambodia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: A Rescue Plan at Last | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...Pianist Youri Egorov, Peters International). Egorov, 25, is the Russian whose biggest break turned out to be losing out in the 1977 Van Cliburn Piano Competition in Fort Worth. His many disappointed partisans in the audience formed a committee to raise the equivalent of the $10,000 grand prize for him, and he soon had all the publicity and bookings a young art ist needs. As this release shows, he has all the more fundamental qualities a young artist needs too: exuberant virtuosity, a formidable command of pianistic sonorities and lots of sensitive, poetic feeling. -Christopher Porterfield

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds in a Summer Groove | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...Jonathan Swift's--30 Boylston St., Cambridge. Telephone 661-9887. Tickets at door. Catch a Rising Star Talent show. Sundays, 9:30 p.m. $100 first prize. potential contestants call 661-7720 for information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: around town | 7/27/1979 | See Source »

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