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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...captain of her own freighter, she lives outside history - obeying only the tides, stars, wind, and her own biological urges. She is also rich, and her mon ey supports Matalax's revolutionary plot, a wild, complex scheme that includes recruiting look-alikes to replace Colonel Arruza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eternity Is Procreation | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

Myth is not dead. It has just taken a job in the movies. Hitchcock is our Homer, Gone With the Wind is our Iliad, and, taken together, a hundred cowboy movies make up the Odyssey of the Late Show. Hollywood's images have become the myths of the 20th century, and somewhere in the depths of our unconscious are mingled words and pictures from the real and the reel: Abraham Lincoln and Raymond Massey, George Patton and George C. Scott, Fanny Brice and Barbra Streisand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Reel Truth, As Time Goes By | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

Eliot's time was a wind-aided 4:49 for the 1500 meters. Quincy finished third followed by Lowell and Mather...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Dudley Wins Softball; Crews Battle | 5/19/1977 | See Source »

That seemed to take the wind out of the Crimson's sails, and the Big Green reeled off the next five goals, two by Boltja, to put the game away...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Dartmouth Whips Slumping Crimson Stickmen, 13-7 | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...struggling with Drug King Carmine Galante over leadership of the city's five crime clans. Mafiosi from coast to coast will look on the winner as the don with the most "respect," the capo di tutti capi (translation: boss of bosses); in a word, the Godfather. The loser may wind up dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MAFIA Big, Bad and Booming | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

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