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...institutions of power As the country's newly appointed commander in chief, he conferred with military leaders about potential threats to Iran. Later, repeating his assertions that the hostage crisis is distracting Iranian from more important matters, he declared: "We ar surrounded by hostile forces, and yet we wast our time playing games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: A Game Without End | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...going for it in the first place, so make those trips to the concession stand brief. The final 20 minutes are positively overwhelming as Kubrick hurls his wayward astronaut through a time warp that makes the color patterns of a kaleidoscope pale by comparison. One warning: don't wast too much time trying to figure out the significance of the monolith and some of the more obscure scenes in 2001; you can save yourself the trouble by reading screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke's book on the film if you are analytically inclined. Better yet, just sit back and space...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Astronauts to the Executive Washroom | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Masterly Job on Job | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...great problems facing serious film makers is the parochialism of most film intelletuals, and the disturbingly ??? quality of movie criticism. ??? ??? interested in the future of the ??? would wast-time discussing the works of say, Philip R?th or Norman Mailer, yet every year small ??? film journals surface with long exegeses of ??? or Hawks, or critical re??? evaluations of Allan D.?wn's Sands of ??? Jimd. Incredible as it may seem, new books are on the stands about such ??? as John Franken heimer ( Grand Prix ) and Rouben Mamoulian ( The Mark of Zorro ), men whose stature stands in direct relation to that...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The Moviegoer Herostratus at the Orson Welles, starting tomorrow | 2/24/1970 | See Source »

...live in a pretty damned artificial environment when Sunday through Thursday you can't even talk to a girl and Friday and Saturday you don't want to wast time talking," Stewart said...

Author: By W. BRUCE Springer, | Title: HUC Will Press Longer Parietals | 9/27/1967 | See Source »

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