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The biggest problem with Steven Spielberg's 1941 is its budget: this film is the most expensive Hollywood farce ever made. Certainly money has its uses in movies, but in a comedy? A key element of humor is surprise; jokes are funniest when they sneak up on the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bombs Bursting in Air | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

"Ev'rything's goin' my way": so go the lyrics. What nook or dell of the U.S.A. in the shadow of the 1980s echoes them? Doubt and the rage of impotence stalk the land. People worry about whether they can gas up to cross a state, let...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A-yip-i-o-ee-ay! | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

"At one morning session at the World Conference on the Future of Mankind, the English-speaking delegates in Committee Room B were discussing 'Science and Spiritual Wisdom.' After the third speaker, a meteorologist, had delivered his speech, an earnest American student stood up and asked,

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Transcendence, Incorporated | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

For 75 years audiences have regarded Peter Pan as child's play. In fact, the work now enchanting a new generation on Broadway is not fantasy but tragedy. Nor is it, as the subtitle declares, about a "boy who wouldn't grow up." It is about a man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Man | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

That was as old as anyone should be, concluded Barrie. "Nothing that happens after we are twelve matters very much," added the little Scot, whose body cooperated by arresting its growth at 5 ft. But the adult world mattered when, after graduation from Edinburgh University, he was expected to prepare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Man | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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