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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is the City, where things like this happen every day, remember? But Bronson has never been one to take pointless injustice lying down, nossir. So he takes the law into his own hands, and the fans go wild. No kidding: I saw this movie on New York's upper west side, and every time Bronson popped another mugger or bag-snatcher in the chest the audience gave him a standing ovation. Which is to say that "Death Wish" will cater to your basest instincts. But it's cathartic, you'll say, harmless, really. Tell me about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swell Dames and Death Wishes | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...fact, vaporized uranium 235 and other particles from the falling Cosmos 954 formed a radioactive cloud in the upper atmosphere that may be up to 250 miles long and is now drifting eastward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hot Spots in the Land of Sticks | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...Protestant, English-speaking minority, which centered its activities around Montreal and the nearby Eastern Townships. For the Anglophone elite, the hub of Quebec life was Montreal's fashionable Sherbrooke Street, within easy distance of the banks and big businesses that they dominated almost exclusively. For the French-speaking upper class of lawyers, intellectuals and politicians, it was the history-drenched Grande Allée, in the provincial capital of Quebec City, 150 miles farther north along the St. Lawrence River. The two peoples were more or less separate but certainly not equal: as early as 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville noted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Secession v. Survival | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Cochrane centered Benson from the left corner and the local boy made good with a blazer from just outside the slot that found home in the upper right corner...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Roast Huskies in Beanpot, 4-3 | 2/7/1978 | See Source »

...Huskies finally converted a chance and tied the game with less than five and a half minutes to play. Mark Derby fed a pass down the right side to Holmes, whose wrist shot was artfully tipped by Wayne Turner into the upper left corner to make it 3-3 and set up the extra frame...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Roast Huskies in Beanpot, 4-3 | 2/7/1978 | See Source »

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