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After the neutron bomb uproar, Sir Ian Gilmour, defense spokesman in the Tory shadow government, lashed out: "There have been weeks of leaks and contradictions, and after an orgy of weakness and vacillation, the wrong decision has finally been reached. Mr. Carter has been scared off the neutron weapon by the Russian propaganda barrage. It now seems that the Kremlin has virtually a right of veto on weapons that NATO is allowed to deploy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter's Balance Sheet | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...story ballets that Balanchine's company did not perform. It meant learning to act as well as dance, an opportunity that she both craved and feared: "I never really felt capable of doing the roles that people seemed to think I could do." Being out from under Balanchine's shadow also meant that she had no place to hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: U.S. Ballet Soars | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...compositions, and someone handles the moving spotlight very adeptly. Little flourishes spice the proceedings; when Diane Nabatoff mounts the stairs to a perch on the top deck while singing "I Get A Kick Out of You," the spotlight catches the side of the Dunster Dining Hall chandelier, casting its shadow on the piece of set below her. Intentional? Maybe, maybe not, but one thing is clear: the angles are on the side of this show...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Porter Ambrosia | 4/20/1978 | See Source »

That problem is how to satisfy the Palestinian demand for some form of nationhood. They remain a homeless people, "the Jews of the Arab world." They have their freedom fighters: the fedayeen. Palestinian guerrillas divided into six major groups that form the Palestine Liberation Organization, a kind of shadow government headed by Yasser Arafat. But they have little else. Israelis maintain that, as former Premier Golda Meir once put it, "there is no such thing as a Palestinian." Many of them carry no more proof of citizenship than the laisser-passer that have been issued to residents of the refugee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Palestinians: Return to Terror | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...Burns and Michael Hershewe - are as obstreperous as they are attractive. Further spice is provided by Murray Hamilton and Robert Webber as dastardly villains, and by the stunning Alexis Smith, who turns up as a wealthy horsewoman. In her tight jeans and cowboy hat, Smith gives Casey's Shadow a welcome dose of hard-edged sexuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Horse Sense | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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