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...local disco, it is on solid footing. When Tony and his inarticulate chums burn off the tensions of their workaday jobs and Roman Catholic guilts, we see a mindless explosion of pent-up energy that is almost frighteningly hedonistic. The characters become cruel and volatile beneath the strobe lights, and it seems that Saturday Night Fever has an authentic statement to make about America's newest crop of alienated youth...
After years of playing the indispensable intermediary in the Middle East, the U.S. seemed to be just another bystander during Anwar Sadat's sacred mission to Jerusalem. Nonetheless, concludes TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, the Carter Administration deserves credit for being a catalyst in the process leading up to the historic visit. Talbott's assessment...
...troubled woman. The movie is a general diatribe against alleged American decadence: Brooks reduces the heroine's psychological background to a few broad strokes so that he can blithely blame her malaise on such irrelevant but cinematic phenomena as strip clubs, gay bars, TV game shows, strobe lights and fast dancing. Not since Paddy Chayefsky in Network has a middle-aged film maker so cantankerously lashed out against the young...
...movie instead of at the beginning--and the film on balance suffers as a result. The director undoubtedly made this change for a specific reason; by saving the murder of Theresa until the final scene, Brooks was able to exploit the effective technique of timing a flashing strobe light in her bedroom with the rapidly mounting and then slowing heartbeat of the victim. In so doing, however, Brooks traps himself in to the quandary of suddenly thrusting the murderer into the narrative without any kind of introduction. A vagrant cowboy type appears out of nowhere, picks up Theresa at Goodbar...
Much of last week's story took place in Washington and was reported by Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott and State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden. Discovered Ogden: "This week there finally is palpable excitement in the Administration that the Geneva conference could become a reality." To round out our reporting, Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff and TIME'S David Halevy assessed the mood in Israel, while TIME'S Dean Brelis and Abu Said Abu Rish interviewed Palestinian leaders in Beirut...