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...star resort, with a government-owned casino and 210-room hotel (average room price: $70 a day). About 80 weekend homes owned mostly by wealthy Panamanians dot the beaches and hills. Palm, papaya and banana trees shade the island, and peacocks and deer roam freely. Temperatures climb to a torrid 95° during the day, but drop to a breezy 70° in the evening. The resort is just now entering its busy season, with the hotel booked solid through April. And, understandably, the tourists worry about the island's most famous guest. "People are concerned about their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Shah's Haven | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

This should not be taken as any certain indication that the collective group temperature has lowered away from the torrid zone. The Who has no formal leader. Entwistle insists it has no leader at all. But Daltrey says he and Townshend are the leaders, with Entwistle having a strong say. If the lines of authority remain unclear, perhaps deliberately, personal lives are kept away from business as much as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Eight years later, the time chimes yesterday and Paul and Susan have loved and divorced. After one last torrid afternoon, Paul wraps himself in a blanket and flops onto a couch to look at slides--his life with Susan etched eternally in ektachrome...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: At Loose Ends? Get Out | 12/12/1979 | See Source »

...added treat is the torrid trumpet work of Jabbo Smith. He has been playing since the '20s. Now over 70, he can garnish a mike with some slyly nimble scat singing, and his ''chops'' are still tops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Steam Heat | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Written by Truffaut, Marie-France Pisier, Jean Aurel and Suzanne Schiffman, the screenplay presents not so much a plot as an intermingling of the past with the present. His torrid, impossible liason with the leonine Liliane (Dani) mirrors his student infatuation with Colette (Marie-France Pisier), the bouffant-haired, Capri-painted flirt he had met 20 years before at a Berlioz Youth concert. Antoine runs past her outside the courthouse where his divorce from Christine has just been made official, only to see her at the railroad station when, always the incurable romantic, he jumps aboard her train. First seen...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Antoine Grows Up | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

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