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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...running in office. The freshman Republican class are avid members of the shin-splint generation, and six of them suited up one morning at sunrise to puff on the mall. Despite a wind-chill factor of 0°, Wyoming's Senator Alan Simpson, 47, Virginia's John Warner, 51, New Hampshire's Gordon Humphrey, 38, Minnesota's David Durenberger, 44, South Dakota's Larry Pressler, 36, and Iowa's Roger Jepsen, 50, enjoyed their informal caucus. Says Simpson: "It clears away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 19, 1979 | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...last week as the 96th Congress convened. Virginia's new Republican Senator, John Warner, hoisted his famous wife, Elizabeth Taylor, onto a table so that she could greet the crowd; later she blew kisses to her husband from the Senate gallery as he was sworn in. The Senate's only woman member, Republican Nancy Kassebaum, pleaded with visitors from her native Kansas: "Please don't ask me what it's like to be the only woman in the Senate. I don't know yet. Maybe in a month or two I will know." Republican Jake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Cautious Senate Begins | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...shots), but Donner puts them together ineptly--whole sequences seem chopped up and hurried, and the images don't flow into each other. Superman is 100% studio hype; is the public so gullible that it can flock to a film because the studio says it's a hit, because Warner Brothers has the money to shove dolls, shirts, lunchboxes and ball-point pens into an already garish, mindless popular culture? John Williams has composed his worst and most blatantly derivative score, and among the actors, Brando is inexcusably wasted as Superman's father-saint, and Gene Hackman is embarrassing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '50s Nostalgia and '70s Paranoia | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

...Cooder: Jazz (Warner Bros.). Old jazz refurbished by a great instrumentalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: YEAR'S BEST | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...Morrison: Wavelength (Warner Bros.). "Lost dreams and found dreams in America": another album of Morrison magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: YEAR'S BEST | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

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