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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single-lens reflex camera with interchangeable lenses and magazines. It quickly became a favorite of professional photographers, earning a reputation as the Rolls-Royce of its field, and later was adopted by NASA for all its manned spaceflights. Michael Collins let go of his on his space walk, so a Hasselblad is still circling the earth as Sweden's only satellite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 21, 1978 | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...WALK into the Loeb Ex before the beginning of When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?, you are confronted by a reconstruction of a sleazy small-town diner and an actor dressed in greaser attire with a tattoo that says "Born Dead" on his arm smoking a cigarette as if it were a joint. Somehow it seems like a good time to go home and watch George Scott ground into double plays...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: An American Nightmare | 8/18/1978 | See Source »

...plant. There is also an abundance of scientific equipment, for both observing the earth and performing tests in space. Last week, for instance, the cosmonauts began a new experiment with sprouting seeds to see how well they might grow in zero-g. A little earlier they took a space walk of two hours and five minutes in a new type of space suit, during which they collected sample materials that had been placed outside the ship, checked scientific instruments and installed a new apparatus for measuring radiation. The cosmonauts so enjoyed their televised extraterrestrial stroll that they refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Space Record for the U.S.S.R. | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...from childhood. But good performances by these actresses can not really compensate for the desperate sobriety of the film, which robs it of energy and passion, so that it seems to congeal. One sign that Allen may have recognized this difficulty is his attempt at a big finish: a walk-into-the-sea suicide that is a belated attempt to engage us emotionally in a story so sterile that we have long since withdrawn from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Darkest Woody | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...alienation, the triumph of good over evil. Of course, work demands some reward, and so, with the play completed, the playwright has left her Paris home for an August breather in Germany's Black Forest. "My head is empty at the moment," she says. "I just want to walk, walk, walk." And then of course there is a casino in Baden-Baden and, for her, gambling still casts a spell. Confesses Sagan: "Good God! Once fate leads you to these habits, there's no stopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 7, 1978 | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

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