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...divorce [from Actor Rex Harrison], and I thought that any new play would be a rehash of something I had done." Not Sarah. During the course of the show, the 66-year-old actress will age from 36 to 74, lose a leg, walk on the back of a whale and nearly drown in Niagara Falls. Says a slightly apprehensive Palmer: "I decided it would be cowardly to refuse this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 27, 1980 | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...abruptly, a quicksilver change is occurring in the course of all three. Laments Los Angeles Attorney John Mailer: "People don't understand the economy. Even the economists don't understand it. I don't have any confidence that any of the candidates would make a whale of a difference. None of them sounds too good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Great 1980 Non-Debate | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...vine roots with its mouth outlined in dogs' teeth and its scalp matted with human hair, could coexist with a high order of technical skill. What survived the auto-da-fe in greater quantity was decorative art of lesser iconographic content: not gods, but feather robes, bone or whale-tooth ornaments, and the beautifully carved wooden containers, irregular in their polished silkiness, from which the Hawaiians ate their poi, a sort of tropical office paste made of taro roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Chieftains, Flacks and Feathers | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...have knocked a hole in the wall, climbed outside their totalistic system and marched angrily around it demanding things. That is very embarrassing. It is also, communistically speaking, impossible. It is a little like the old Second City comedy routine in which Ahab thunderously demands, "Hast seen the white whale?" and the other ship's captain calls back, "Yeah. We killed him yesterday." What happens now to the metaphysical plot, to the primordial story? Communism, after all, loses ideological face if the workers, the stars of Marx's historical drama, step so radically out of their assigned role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: What Workers Get out of Communism | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...Beaufort Sea, where significant oil and gas have been found. But in U.S. territory near the famous North Slope fields oil explorers have not sunk many wells because of court actions brought by Indians and environmentalists who are worried about, among other things, disturbing the migration of the bowhead whale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Looking for Oil Eldorados | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

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