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Sylvester Stallone, who wrote the script and who also plays Rocky, is himself a testament to that struggle. He has appeared from the middle of nowhere in the Brooklyn streets of the Lords of Flatbush to write a script and give a performance good enough to win him two new...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Miracle in Philadelphia | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

The earliest is a battered 5th century silver votive lamp, dedicated to St. Sylvester and found, half eaten away by corrosion, in a church garden in the 17th century. From such crude, fragile souvenirs of primitive Christianity, the range expands: 10th century enamels, 11th century ivories, medieval reliquaries of silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: RICHES REVEALED | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

Last Resort. The nine surviving student victims of the Kent State shooting and the parents of the four youths who were killed on May 4, 1970, had filed a $46 million civil suit against Ohio Governor James Rhodes, former Kent State University President Robert White, Ohio National Guard Commanders Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Last Act at Kent State | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

Baked Potato. Made on a shoestring budget that does not seem to have caused anyone much difficulty, Death Race 2000 is a jaunty, funny, bemusedly tense little action picture. It was obviously intended to scoop Rollerball, a more costly and similar science-fiction enterprise (TIME, July 7) and it commits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cheerful Larceny | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

The Bugs Bunny amalgam is really very good, and though the tone of the tons is shrill and annoying, the wit of this set of Warner Brothers shorts, and the consciousness-forming remembrance that goes with them, is worth checking out. The Hitler and Stalin ones are missing, but the...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: THE SCREEN | 5/8/1975 | See Source »

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