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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part to an arresting performance by Film Actor Gere (Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Yanks). Even greater thanks are due David Dukes for his extraordinarily intuitive portrayal of Horst, a man rounded up by the state for having signed a petition demanding rights for "queers." To put this in proper historical perspective, some of the earliest Nazi party stalwarts were distinctly "bent." On the "Night of the Long Knives," June 30, 1934, Hitler ordered Ernst Röhm, left-wing head of the SA and a notorious homosexual fanatically loyal to the Führer, murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Walpurgisnacht | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...felt a boycott was proper but that we should offer alternatives as well," John A. Thompson '80, chairman of the House Committee, said yesterday...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Quincy Supports CRR Boycott; North Only House Still to Vote | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

There are varying word lists-some repetitions, some new words-at each of four levels of difficulty. In addition, the machine plays word games, and can put messages into code. (It also spells any word aloud, when the proper buttons are pushed, and children discover quickly that when improper buttons are pushed, bad words are spelled. The shock value is considerable when the pleasant mechanical voice pronounces "Eff, You, See ...") Speak & Spell, which sells for $64.95, was dreamed up by a Texas Instruments products engineer named Paul Breedlove, who had worked in voice synthesis and thought that the concept might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...flat-woven rugs, have long been considered the s poor relatives of the Oriental knotted pile rugs that have proved to be one of the best -though specialized-hedges against inflation in recent years. Kilims by Yanni Petsopoulos with Michael Franses (Rizzoli; 394 pages; $85) gives these weavings their proper due. It should be welcomed by both collectors and decorators, the former because the author has provided clear and much needed scholarship on origins and techniques, the latter because of the rare and glorious examples of kilims from Anatolia, the Caucasus and Persia that are reproduced in the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves for $4.95 and Up | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...These are the wildest waters in the world. It's called the graveyard of the Atlantic, and this is where they propose to start drilling without proper safeguards," Francis Sargent, former governor of Massachusetts, said to the crowd of about...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Groups Call for Precautions Before Sale of Drilling Rights | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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