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Its hypnotic opening montage, for example. Five travelers on horseback--four men and a woman--are seen moving across the bleak landscape of southwestern England early in the 18th century. Fragmentary, half-perceived scenes reveal that most of the outward facts that can be learned about this little group are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysterious Movers and Shakers a Maggot | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

One group that has faced an especially difficult shakeout period is the Hmong hill tribe of Laos, many of whose members were recruited by the CIA to fight Communist forces. An agrarian people with an animist faith and a language that had no written form until 30 years ago, many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asians to America with Skills | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

Not quite. Paik's cavernous loft resembles a Sony factory that was in the process of being ransacked by terrorists when an earthquake struck. Television sets, some dead and most of the others crying out for intensive care, are scattered everywhere, along with packing crates and snaking piles of electronic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Artist Nam June Paik: Four Who Brought Talent | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

With war's end, and the onslaught of insularity in the '50s, many of the diaspora scattered again, finding refuge back home in European co-productions. Hollywood was retreating into familiar genres: into the memorial expanses of westerns like High Noon (directed by the Austrian Fred Zinnemann) or the paranoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magic Shadows From a Melting Pot for New Americans, the Movies Offered the Ticket for Assimilation | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

At 8:07 a.m. Sunday morning, the crew of Air India Flight 182 made a routine call to the control tower at Ireland's Shannon Airport. The flight, which originated in Toronto, was going just as planned. The plane was cruising at 33,000 feet above the North Atlantic, about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters Two More Strikes for Terrorists? | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

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