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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...topic. Witness the parallel he draws between a Saturn V launching and the beginning of life: "Five hundred million years ago, the moon summoned life out of its first home, the sea...[As] it drew the tides across the barren continents of primeval earth, their daily rhythm exposed to sun and air the creatures of the shallows...Now, the moon calls again and this time life responds with a roar that shakes earth and sky." In Serendip, unfortunately, Clarke's prose--burdened by the inappropriate subject matter--plods more often than it soars...

Author: By Adam W. Glass, | Title: 1977: A Space Stalemate | 10/21/1977 | See Source »

Although the sun shone yesterday, Vogel said the course was "muddy and mucky after all the rain recently...

Author: By Peter R. Reynolds, | Title: Sullivan Breaks Record Again | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

...historical themes, 1900 's strongest motifs are visual. Bertolucci organizes the film around the seasons of the year and provides a voluptuous emotional texture wrought from pastoral sun light, blood, mist and excrement. Though much of 1900 has the majesty of Renaissance art, many of its images are erotic or terrifying. In one typically disturbing scene, the director reveals his views on sexual exploitation by sending his two leads to bed with a lovely village laundress who proves to be epileptic. Later, when the Blackshirts come to power, the movie's principal villains (Donald Sutherland and Laura Betti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Epic Century | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...when it was over, and the rain had stopped and the sun had made its first Saturday appearance in Cambridge in many a moon, it was the Crimson that stood alone atop the Ivy standings, 3-0 in the league, and doesn't the Colgate game seem semesters away...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Dartmouth Big Green Ain't So Mean | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church has returned to Harvard Square with fewer numbers than last year, but is still wining 15 to 20 converts a month, Aidan Barry, director of the Cambridge Unification Center, said yesterday...

Author: By William D. Swislow, | Title: Unification Church | 10/14/1977 | See Source »

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