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...sensible Kansas widow, retrieved from a brush with death, who restores health "in the name of love." Love is all she wants to give to the two men in her life: her stern pa (Roberts Blossom), who responds to her proffered caress both as a seduction and a slap, and a young rake (Sam Shepard), who is at first liberated by her power and then consumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Miracle Worker | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...West Point fancies itself a timeless institution and, as graduate Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked on his return to the campus, "Some things never change." On Saturdays, two regiments parade in full dress on the great expanse of the Plain. At morning inspection, a cadet's "tac" (tactical officer) can slap three demerits on him for "messy drawers." Cadets must arrange their books on their shelves in order, from tallest to shortest. Physical education is a graded course and each year a cadet is required to run the obstacle course. They call it the O.C. in public, "the suck" in private...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Duty, Honor, Country... | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...enough to the house to be easily seen in the moonlight. Though she went off looking for permanence, Arthur discovers that she is a connoisseur of flux. The lake evokes her keenest descriptions: during a storm "the water was stirred every few minutes by a gigantic sweep like the slap of a hand." On a sunny day "the lake is ocean blue, throwing back the face of the sky and then catching it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winter Kills | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...convention) is a good thing. Business is very good, but only for a few days. Everything is very slow. Nothing is right. People doesn't have money, and they don't go out." The gray blob soars dangerously close to the low ceiling, but returns with a soft slap to the pizzaman's fist...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: 'I'm in a New York State of Mind' | 8/12/1980 | See Source »

...made it to the Soviet Union. Nor has the "White album" ever been available there officially. This does not mean, however, that a Soviet citizen under the age of 30 has not heard Back in the U.S.S.R., with its wicked inversion of some old Chuck Berry sentiments and its slap-happy political satire. For that matter, young Muscovites could probably chime in on a chorus of Let It Be. Officially, there is little imported rock or pop music available. Unofficially, Moscow is like Alice's Restaurant. You can get anything you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Keeping the Comrades Warm | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

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