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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It used to be that special effects were created to serve a movie's story, to permit the camera to capture that which could not be found-or recorded on film-in the natural world. But now, in the postStar Wars era, stories are created merely to provide a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Warp Speed to Nowhere | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

It turns out that the villainous UFO is not manned. This is very peculiar, since in the film's opening sequence it is full of weirdos. By the time the Enterprise closes in on it, the creatures have all disappeared, victims not of the story line but of what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Warp Speed to Nowhere | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Some of the metaphorical questions that used to get raised by the Enterprise's intergalactic encounters on the old TV show were at least a little more interesting than this stale intelligence-vs.-emotion debate. One suspects a sellout to the Me Generation's self-absorbed search for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Warp Speed to Nowhere | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Even as Carter was telling 100 Congressmen at a White House buffet dinner last week that the idea of a stiff gasoline tax "is looking better and better," legislators were beginning to snipe at the idea. Said powerful Democratic Congressman Charles Vanik of Ohio: "Are you crazy? Fifty cents is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter Considers a Gas Tax | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

In the event that gasoline prices were to increase sharply, growth in the economy as a whole would not necessarily slow, or unemployment rise, if the proceeds of the tax were recycled to consumers, as the various Administration proposals recommend. But the impact on consumer prices would be severe. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter Considers a Gas Tax | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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