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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prove something about the times we live in," announces the alarms expert (Warren Beatty). What this crime proves is never revealed. There are, however, never-ending references to money, proceeding in both dialogue and image to a last scene that will come as a surprise only to those who slept through the first seven reels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Devalued $ | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

...stand. Daily, and often hourly, Indian planes strafed airports in Dacca, Karachi and Islamabad. Some 300 children were said to have died in a Dacca orphanage when a piston-engine plane dropped three 750-lb. bombs on the Rahmat-e-Alam Islamic Mission near the airport while 400 children slept inside. Earlier in the week, two large bombs fell on workers' shanties near a jute mill in nearby Narayan-ganj, killing 275 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Bangladesh: Out of War, a Nation Is Born | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

...moon shone that Saturday night in March 1960 in St. Martin, a picturesque dot of a town on the coast of Jersey, largest of the bucolic Channel Islands. As the village slept, a silent intruder broke into a small cottage, abducted a 14-year-old girl from her ground-floor bedroom and led her to a nearby field, where he raped her and nearly strangled her by twisting a rope around her neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Hermit of Les Ecr | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...Juilliard School): "The world is full of orchestration operas-everything down to and including the kitchen stove, and then the singers have to yelp above it. Mine is a singing opera. I like the words and rather wanted them heard. Byron is the hero and the villain both. Byron slept with everybody around. He was, don't forget it, a lord, a millionaire, a genius and a beauty. And with all that, he had to misbehave every day to cut himself down to size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Virgilicm Knack | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

...fabric with polyester. This was made possible by a process called texturizing, which twists the smooth synthetic filaments into curls that give them bulk and resiliency. Polyester double knits are comfortably light, and they stretch easily with the movements of the wearer. Moreover, they resist wrinkling, even when slept in. The new fabric quickly transformed millions of buyers of woven cloth into double knit pickers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Golden Twist for Textiles | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

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