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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tomb site a professor and his assistant (Charlton Heston and Susannah York) are prizing open the evil princess's mummy case. Back in camp his wife (Jill Townsend) goes into labor-two months early. A mysteriously difficult birth ensues. No one needs a translation of the hieroglyphics in the burial place to know what is happening-the soul of the royal personage is reversing the usual journey, moving from tomb to womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pile of Zs | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the Moonies claim that for all the suspicion around town, some members of the citizenry would like to do even more business with them. Says Denny Townsend, 33, co-manager of the church's lobster plant: "I have people in my office every week who want to sell me a piece of Gloucester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Battening Down | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...criminal life. What's on his mind is the way fantasy interferes with and distorts perceptions of reality. Having picked up a chauffeur (Richard Romanus) who is obsessed with writing "the Great American Song," the criminals soon add two ladies to their entourage. One, sweetly played by Patrice Townsend, is a yoga adept, a diet freak and, it develops, something of a nymphomaniac who brings a musical Teddy bear to bed with her as she seduces all the males present. Her friend, well played by Irene Forrest, is the opposite: a woman so noisily trying to find herself that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slo-Mo Farce | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...spending. Though spending is projected to rise 3.3% in real terms during fiscal 1981, none of the increases reflects the military buildup that Carter has committed the U.S. to as a result of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Complained Economist Alan Greenspan of the New York consulting firm of Townsend-Greenspan: "To pretend that this budget is up to date when everyone knows that it is not is a bit of public relations that one could do without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Hesitant Recession | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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