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It was an ugly, shocking image of innocence and impotence, of tyranny and terror, of madness and mob rule. Blindfolded and bound, employees of the U.S. embassy in Tehran were paraded last week before vengeful crowds while their youthful captors gloated and jeered. On a gray Sunday morning, students invoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blackmailing the U.S. | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

In Passion Play, Kosinski's seventh novel, the man's name is Fabian. But in essence he is the bloodless Levanter of Blind Date (1977), the vengeful wanderer Tarden of Cockpit (1975) and the haunted boy in Kosinski's first and best fiction, The Painted Bird. Fabian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When Going Is the Goal | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Her comeback was due in part to the vigorous campaign she waged to portray herself as a defenseless woman persecuted by a vengeful government bent on destroying her and her son Sanjay, even at the expense of ignoring India's monumental problems. As both Charan Singh and his predecessor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Constitutional Crisis | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

The game lasted only two hours and ten minutes, hardly a fair trade off for the hopes lodged in Thursday's eight-hour Odyssey to vengeful Ithaca.

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Batsmen Lose EIBL Crown | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

By week's end at least 109 officials of the old regime had been tried, found guilty and shot, in a display of revolutionary justice that to much of the world seemed vengeful and barbaric. The trial scenes recalled the bloody aftermath of other revolutions, such as the Reign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Summary Justice | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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