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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israelis not only have nuclear weapons but they massacre innocent people in an airliner and they try to shoot down an American pilot? Their morals are no better than the Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, May 3, 1976 | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Friday and Saturday...

Author: By Peter Kaplan and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 4/22/1976 | See Source »

...announcements--telling the time of the contest and when and where you have to bring a copy of your selection beforehand. Fine. You pick your selection, make sure it's under five minutes, then type up a copy to bring over to the Loeb. I picked out something from Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell that I read in tutorial last year and was real gripping because it tells the story of this guy in Burma somewhere being a British colonialist and one day has to shoot an elephant that's gone "must" (in heat). There...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Big Game | 4/20/1976 | See Source »

...like. When I got into it, I felt like I was on top of the world, all these people quiet and transfixed, I even forgot about some friends of mine who said they might make obscene gesticulations (masturbating an elephant, if you can believe that) or yell "Don't shoot," when it comes to be the time in the speech when the guy lies down on the road and lets the elephant have it between the eyes. With 300 people on the edges of their seats, wearing your tuxedo and standing above them, you sort of forget...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Big Game | 4/20/1976 | See Source »

...mighty arms that cost $450,000 and have developed on-camera arteriosclerosis. The producer has rushed over so many Italian technicians to get the monkey off his back that pasta is outselling pastrami at the studio commissary. Director John Guillermin (Towering Inferno) is about out of scenes he can shoot without his star, and the production is reportedly closing down for three weeks. The cost of Kong may be horrendous. When Paramount solicited prices on 40 ft. of realistic Kong pelt, the first bid asked $1 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: King Klunk | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

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