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Indeed, the decision to transform the guerrilla war in that country into a major trial of will was made in part to draw the sharpest contrast between the Carter and Reagan approaches to foreign affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Haig: The Vicar Takes Charge | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...chemical creations face lengthy testing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before they can be licensed. The application to agriculture will require a great deal of capital, to say nothing of enormous technological advances, before any plants and products can be turned out in sufficient quantities to transform the world. Says James Watson, who with Francis Crick won a Nobel Prize for unraveling the double-helix structure of DNA and ultimately making recombinant DNA possible: "Let's put it this way: I wouldn't buy gene-splicing stock for my grandmother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaping Life In the Lab | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...horses gallop into the distance, the music swells dramatically, reminding that this is a stirring moment. The Romantic flourishes become so predictable that Polanski almost parodies soppy filmmaking. He bombards with shots of gentle animals: deer, cows, wans, all of them looking as though they might, at any moment, transform into a Stubbs oil. Polanski even presents the film's little bit of gore with extreme tameness. His relentless diffidence weakens a potentially powerful story. We watch with a dreamy disinterest as Fate designs it tapestry of despair. BecauseTess' story doesn't possess the shock value it had when Hardy...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Polanski Prettified | 2/27/1981 | See Source »

...persons, his thoughts follow each other in a seemingly random order, and yet he emerges with the clarity of night neon. He wants to resist becoming another victim of "the American confusion"--he wants the carbon monoxide and the cancers to go away--he wants the persiflage to magically transform itself into poetry. He wants...and that's all that matters. As long as that impulse is still there Ray can live to tell the tale, Ray's life--a trip...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Sabres, Gentlemen, Sabres | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

...Eric Heffer, and Labor M.P. Frank Allaun, a pacifist often suspected of pro-Moscow views. Bevan thus became chief Marxist proselytizer among the nation's youth. Says he: "I'm trying to convince young people to fight for real socialist policies where it counts. We have to transform the Labor Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Proud to Be Called a Marxist | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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