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...solution to violent crime is to sentence those convicted of murder to death. If the penalty is carried out within two weeks, it will create more space in penitentiaries and serve notice to all: You reap what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 13, 1981 | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...near her and to reap her virginity at an apt moment, Humbert marries her mother Charlotte (Shirley Stoler); By chance, she hurtles down a flight of stairs to her death and Humbert is free to pursue his lascivious designs. To his shock and chagrin, Lolita seduces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Lo and Hum as Ho and Hum | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...President decided to act now in order to send a signal to oil producers and to the public that he wanted to get the Government out of the business of regulating the price and availability of energy. Another advantage of immediate decontrol is that it will probably reap the Government an additional $3 billion to $4 billion in tax revenues during this fiscal year. The White House can use that money to help keep down the size of the budget deficit, which is now projected to reach $60 billion this year, even without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taming the Monster | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...industry argues that those who convert to gas can recoup their costs in one to five years and reap substantial savings thereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Heating War Erupts | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...bloodbath in Psycho). Thus when she flees into a dark closet or abandoned sleeping car-where, of course, the evil one waits, knife at the ready-she must have a logical reason. She does: to act as avatar of the movie audience's delicious vulnerability. Also to reap big bucks for the merchants of low-budget menace who have revamped an honorable film formula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Scream Queen | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

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