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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said of this book--it satisfies in a way that few of Updike's recent works, though so precisely tooled, can manage. By taking on the wide spaces, forgetting the parking lots and PTAs and roadside motel rooms, he opens up new canyons where his imagination can wander, and reflect...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Updike Unloosed | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

...season to rank near the top of pro quarterbacks in completions: 231 of 413 passes (55.9%) for 3,190 yds. and 25 touchdowns. The man whose legs won him the Heisman Trophy in 1963 now lives, as do all N.F.L. quarterbacks, by his arm. His hands, gnarled and disfigured, reflect his trade: the index finger on his throwing hand still shows the marks of off-season surgery, and the little finger on the same hand zigs at right angles from one fracture, then zags back again from a second break. It is these hands that will load the Dallas shotgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Duel at the Super Bowl | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

True, Harvard's record doesn't reflect much to shout about; but without question, the Crimson is playing a better brand of ball since McLaughlin arrived 18 months ago. The schedule is also a great deal tougher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Simply A Question Of Style | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...offend me. I ripped off the cover and all interior photographs, in living color, of the massacre. They reflect the same loss of human dignity that the events in Guyana themselves represent

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1978 | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...other factors have to be considered. Among them: accessibility, ambience, restaurants, night life, theaters, museums, shopping, sightseeing, sports and the degree of local cooperation. Thus New York City and Chicago perennially head the Top Ten convention cities in numbers of conventioneers and dollars spent, but the jostling runners-up reflect demographic change and civic ambition. The field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Hosts to the Most | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

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