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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given these credentials, Fuller is unlikely to be trusted by readers concerned with accuracy, responsibility or perception. A pity. For Fuller has just written a true, tragic account of Seveso. Italy, a town ravaged by a toxic chemical. The "Italian Hiroshima" occurred shortly after noon on July 10, 1976, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Town Crier | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

Ten Little Indians contains the basic Christie trademarks--a cast of stereotyped characters--a retired general, a spinster, a professional man, a dashing playboy--and the usual shock ending. The plot and suspense rely on interaction between the characters--their growing suspicion of one another and the inexorable stripping of...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Murder in the Fishbowl | 3/24/1978 | See Source »

The paradox of dance choreography is that the audience is often unlikely to grasp the subject of the dance; but without a strong central theme, even if it is unperceived, the audience is likely to be bored. The pleasure one feels at a dance performance comes when he or she...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anatomy of a Dance: From Idea to Movement | 3/22/1978 | See Source »

Critics of Prime Minister Ian Smith cited the bloody incident as proof that his announced plan to bring majority rule to Rhodesia by next year would lead to escalation, rather than cessation, of the five-year-old guerrilla war. Smith's "internal settlement," negotiated with three moderate black nationalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Agonizing over the Settlement | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

A permanent move to America is unlikely, however. Wenders says he plans to return when Hammett is finished, and Herzog, that most rug ged of rugged individualists, will make German films wherever he is. Fassbinder, much as he longs to live in Manhattan, cannot escape the destiny that has made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Seeking Planets That Do Not Exist | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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