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Dates: during 1970-1979
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King Zharko (Sterling Hayden), leader of New York's gypsies, has an idiotic son and a clever grandson. From the beginning it is obvious that Dave (Eric Robert), the grandson, will become king. It is equally clear, though, that he doesn't want any part of king-ship...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Be My Gypsy | 1/26/1979 | See Source »

...Basque region with weapons bought from the proceeds of bank robberies and extortion. They are mostly young, middle class, Marxist-Leninist in ideology. They carry out their bloody missions skillfully-eight political killings so far this year 63 last year-if sometimes reluctantly Says the mother of one: "My son did not enjoy killing, but he thought that otherwise nothing could be accomplished." Their acronym, ETA (for Euzkadi ta Azkatasuna, or Basque Homeland and Liberty), has become synonymous with terror in Spain. Their goal: an independent state composed of the four predominantly Basque provinces in Spam and the three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: A Wave of Basque Terror | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Last June, Herbert Armstrong excommunicated his mellifluous TV preacher son Garner Ted, 48, who now operates a 3,000-member offshoot, the Church of God, International, from Tyler, Texas. Since the family fallout, the Worldwide Church has been run by Rader, a lawyer who was baptized by Herbert in 1975. The suit claims that Rader, whose 40-year-old secretary wed Herbert Armstrong in April 1977, may have reaped the profit from the $1.8 million sale of his Beverly Hills estate, which allegedly was maintained at church expense. The suit also raises questions about Rader's financial involvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Propheteering? | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...son of an artist whose specialty also was still life, Nicholson grew up in a visually literate milieu. Because it was English, it was conservative. Ben's first real contact with modern art did not occur until the 1920s, when he saw a Picasso in Paris. "It was what seemed to me then completely abstract," he recalled later, "and in the center there was an absolutely miraculous green-very deep, very potent and very real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Landscape on a Tabletop | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Presiding over this dignified conclave was Ron DiNicola, another disappointment to my fantasies of illiterate pugilists. Rocky Balboa's mother would have wanted her son to look like Ron, handsome and unscarred. He talked about a sport he loved and one in which he had achieved considerable success. In 1975, he had won the lightweight championship of the Marine Corps, an organization whose members are noted for their willingness to battle...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Boxing at Harvard: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

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