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...tung sent millions to their deaths in the name of a supposedly moral cause-in their case, the desired triumph of socialism. Now the Cambodians have taken bloodbath sociology to its logical conclusion. Karl Marx declared that money was at the heart of man's original sin, the acquisition of capital. The men behind Cambodia's Angka Loeu (Organization on High), who absorbed such verities while students in the West, have decided to abolish money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Cambodia: An Experiment in Genocide | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...adorning the cover of your magazine with the shining faces of Hollywood's creations? First we had John Travolta, and now we are treated to Glamour Boy Warren Beatty. Surely in this world there is more important news than the fact that Mr. Beatty's idea of sin "is to eat ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1978 | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...years. In Britain, Prime Minister James Callaghan charged that these cases "bear some of the hallmarks of the trials we knew in Stalin's day" (see box). In Israel, where attacks on Soviet Jews are perceived as a family tragedy, Premier Menachem Begin said that Shcharansky's "only sin was that he wanted to join his people in Israel." In Italy, a statement issued by Italian Communist Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer proclaimed: "Convictions for crimes of opinion cannot be tolerated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: The Shcharansky Trial | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

Ignorance leads to tragedy. Melchior (Boyd Gaines), an iconoclast-charmer, imparts some explicit sexual information to his friend, the ironically self-deprecating Moritz (Richard Frank). Flunking, engulfed in guilt, though innocent of sin, Moritz commits suicide. Avid for love, woefully unprepared by her mother (Rebecca Guy), Wendla (Kathryn Dowling) becomes pregnant by Melchior and dies during an abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Young Blood | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...original Velvet Brown, the young and glorious Elizabeth Taylor ran her horse Pie to victory in England's Grand National. Now, Velvet is a high-strung middle-aged woman (Nanette Newman) who lives in sin with a blocked novelist known as John (Christopher Plummer). Tatum plays Sarah Velvet Brown, a recently orphaned niece who ar rives from Arizona to live with her aunt. Once she meets Pie's latest foal, history very slowly but surely repeats itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slow Trot | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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