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...suspense. The time is the past indefinite; costumes indicate the 19th century, but there are references to the 1930s, and at one time Mozart can be seen working at a hammerklavier. Ida, the oldest girl, is given charge of her baby sister. When she grows inattentive, faceless creatures steal in and exchange the child for a simulacrum made of ice. Frantic, Ida climbs backward out her window and into the sky, tumbling through worlds of arbors and harbors, moonlight and lamplight, irrevocable loss and paradise regained. In the end the villainous goblins are revealed as babies, but in the author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

This is the age of the machine-made movie. Hollywood, once called the dream factory, is now in the recycling business. George Lucas compresses old movie serials into Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Brian De Palma and a dozen other directors pay homage to (read: steal shamelessly from) the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Albert R. Broccoli is the same but different: Since Dr. No, the producer's first James Bond movie, in 1962, he has remade his own picture eleven times. To evaluate For Your Eyes Only and the other Bond movies, it helps to think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Perpetual Motion Machine | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...That call really brought us together." Paul Scheper said of an attempted steal of home in the second game of Saturday's doubleheader at Cornell that got Nahigian ejected for the second time in his Harvard career...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Batsmen Have 1-2 Weekend | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...fourth for a 1-0 Harvard lead. A Danny Skaff single sent Allard to third moments later, and when Jay Kobylarz. Cornell's classy southpaw, went into his stretch for the 0-2 delivery to Joe Wark. Skaff broke for second and Allard broke home on a delayed double steal...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Batsmen Have 1-2 Weekend | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

First pitcher to fracture a rib while watching a runner steal second base-Craig Swan of the New York Mets, struck in the back by Catcher Ron Hodges' errant throw, a feat reminiscent of Casey Stengel's original Amazin' Mets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: You Can Look It Up | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

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