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...original cultivation of Rohanda-Shikasta. She retains a proprietary interest in the ailing planet, and visits it every eon or so. In addition to the unfolding spectacle of human savagery, she sees some spectacular sights. She happens to be flying over in a small bubble of a spaceship when the planet suddenly tips over from its upright axis. Her description of this cataclysm, all grinding continents and sudden snow, is the most vivid part of her report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More Lessing | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...goes when Carl Sagan, creator, chief writer and host-narrator of the new public television series Cosmos takes the controls of his fantasy spaceship. Sagan's grandfather can rest easy now. His grandson is not only making a living, thank you, he has also become a star?indeed, a supernova of sorts?in the scientific firmament. Sagan's books, ranging from speculations about life beyond the earth (The Cosmic Connection) to ruminations about the reptilian ancestry of the human brain (The Dragons of Eden) have sold millions of copies and have been translated into a dozen languages. His lectures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Cosmic Explainer | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...guessed it might be worth a few hundred bucks. Chong smokes billy-club sized joints and a cockroach he finds in the jar labelled "Roaches." Cheech sniffs salt thinking it's cocaine (and to climax this butguster drinks urine to slake his thirst). And at the end, a spaceship arrives to carry away all the pot bushes in a country field. Pretty humorous...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Smoked | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

...believe you never heard of Alice Cooper! Don't you read T shirts?" Guess what? Travis becomes a roadie superstar and deposits Lola with Alice himself. But she follows the course of true love into the front seat of Travis' pickup truck-just as the spaceship from Close Encounters alights with a request for Travis to perform a quick lube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Great Rock-'n'-Roll Caravan | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...audience watching the new show, A Cure by Laughter, at the Old Moscow Circus already suspects what "doctor" from outer space is going to pop out of that tiny spaceship landing in the single ring, and their delight is tangible. Sure enough, what emerges is no astronaut, considering the oversize checkered cap perched on unruly shocks of blond hair, black velvet jacket, red scarf, clodhopper shoes and, of course, trademark potato nose. After 30 years with the circus, Oleg Popov, 49, is regarded as the king of clowns even beyond Soviet borders. How long did it take to dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 23, 1980 | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

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