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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES by Kowalski and Hufstader, pregnant patient and principled physician run through the standard arguments for and against abortion. This time, however, the sex roles are reversed: Man is the desperate, powerless victim, and woman the smug, powerful perpetrator. To his cry that he has the right to pursue a career he's worked hard to establish, the feminist surgeon ironically answers that the unborn also have rights and that even one transgression of these rights would set an evil precedent. When he says he'd like to kill her, she replies that often "the impregnated wants to kill...

Author: By Joan Feigenbaum, | Title: "A Woman's Work..." | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

...only standard of criticism we can apply is one that considers what Dylan tried to do, and how well he did it--no theories of cinema or pop culture hold. No confessional this--only more rumors. If he tried to show us only another in the unending series of masks he has worn since Huck Finn came down from the North Country with his Elvis Presley haircut. All this stuff about his tremendous egotism does not apply--as somebody else has already pointed out, what is art except egotism? Renaldo and Clara is just another step on the many roads...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Mr. Tambourine Man Goes to Hollywood | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

With the purge of the "gang of four" in 1976, the military returned to the center of politics, and public opinion began to emerge as an "institutional force," Terrill said. "There was a snapping of certain rhetorical myths and a concretization of wishes for a better standard of living...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terrill Discusses China After Mao At Quincy Dinner | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

Through the material Gornick extracts from the interviews, she presents a fairly standard interpretation of the Party's appeal in the '30s, when many of her subjects signed on. Time and time again, the former Party members recall the Depression, the Spanish Civil War and the rise of European fascism. Communism seemed a viable alternative. Looking back 40 years later, a surprising number of those she interviewed still believed that Revolution--not merely Prosperity--then lurked around the corner...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Strawberries and Cream | 4/5/1978 | See Source »

...champions as Canonero II and Cannonade, imported a $6.6 million French stallion named Lyphard, son of Northern Dancer. Just before the deadline, Spendthrift Farm, stud managers of Nashua and Majestic Prince, flew in the stallion Caro from France. Both horses arrived with French certificates of health and passed the standard USDA tests. Moreover, both Caro and Lyphard were cleared by a specific test for CEM conducted in midwinter by the anxious USDA, which feared that some horses imported before the embargo might have been infected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Blighted Spring in the Bluegrass | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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