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Kids say the darnedest things. Why, only the other day a nine-year-old named Robert-his surname remains undisclosed-marched into a busy midtown Manhattan bank and said, "This is a holdup! Don't say a silent word!" The teller giggled-until the child leveled a silver automatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Charmed Robbery | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

The tape ran out, Fuentes quickly sat forward and turned off the tape machine. "Mexico's coming up in the world," he smiled.

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: Mexican Poet Carlos Fuentes: At Home Abroad | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

DURING THE great schism in French cinema many years ago, when the New Wave reared its vicious little head, Francois Truffaut emerged on the side of the angels. A sentimentalist and romantic, Truffaut seemed to lose any grittiness he once had. The tough but compassionate voyeur lost the harsh edges...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Truffaut's Diffidence | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

Lucy had chosen the first route. Lucy was short, skinny, short-haired and black black, and thus unacceptable. So she made her choice. She selected Patricia, the lightest-skinned girl in the school, as her friend and followed her around. Patricia and her friends barely tolerated Lucy, but Lucy smiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Carolina: Growing Up Black in the '40s | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

A turning point came at Guernica, the Basques' spiritual center. Thirty members of the militant Herri Batasuna Party loudly cut off the King's address with an old Basque fighting song. It took security guards ten minutes to subdue the demonstrators in an unseemly scene that was carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: A Shrewd King | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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