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From that beginning have sprung enough plots, subplots and sub-subplots to propel a dozen shows. There is so much going on, in fact, that CBS will spin off a new series, called Knot's Landing, next January, with the feckless Gary re-emerging in Southern California. In the past year in Dallas, meantime, there have been three kidnapings and one violent death. J.R. has forcibly committed his alcoholic wife Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) to a drying-out clinic. Vowing revenge, she has taken up with Pam's brother, Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval). "I'm just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Big House on the Prairie | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...other works includes several volumes of detective fiction (Tales of the Black Widowers, Murder at the ABA); books on chemistry, astronomy and religion; The Intelligent Man 's Guide to Science ("The title refers to the author, not the reader"); the novelization of the film Fantastic Voyage, which helped propel Raquel Welch through the bloodstream; and a book of instructions on how to be a dirty old man. "A lot of people can write," says the author. "I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...ailing Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, 80, the figurehead Chief of State), Teng is the principal architect of what has become known in Chinese rhetoric as the Four Modernizations?an attempt simultaneously to improve agriculture, industry, science and technology, and defense. Because of the tremendous enterprise he has launched to propel the nation into the modern world, Teng Hsiao-p'ing (pronounced dung sheow ping) is TIME'S Man of the Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Visionary of a New China | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...perpetual revolution, and there is no end in sight." People flying over the West and Midwest see an unusual pattern on the terrain below: not the familiar farm land with checkerboard squares, but large polka dots, the result of costly ($50,000 each) center-pivot irrigation machines that automatically propel themselves around the fields in a circle. Some of the strawberries that Americans buy and eat are cloned. Yes, cloned. The process in brief: plant tissue is mushed up, placed in a clear, jelly-like mix of nutrients and injected with hormones

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

What members of these factions forget is that they are citizens not of a cause but of a country of many causes. The adamant attitude that gives some motorists victory on the expressway may well propel some other faction to triumph on another issue - environment, conservation, name it - in a way the motorist might deplore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Menace of Fanatic Factions | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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