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Does no one have the guts to call John Lennon what he was: a media-wise, existentialist Pied Piper who helped lead countless kids down the rocky rathole of drugs, rebellion and purposelessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1981 | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...militants in Solidarity. Walesa, himself a moderate, has resisted all efforts to disavow the dissidents so far. Nevertheless, grumbling about his supposed timidity has increased among union militants. "The clergy has an important influence on him," says one unionist, "and I'm not sure it's a wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Rebirth and Peril | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...Wise Blood. John Huston, at his eccentric best, adapts the Flannery O'Connor tale about a Godforsaken evangelist. For red-clay craziness -weird, scary and funny-this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema: Best Of 1980 | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...Randall Wise has in turn tried several colors, but finds that red is best, at least for the thousands of Leghorn hens he has personally fitted. Red lenses somehow not only diminish cannibalism but also reduce the quantity of food needed to produce a dozen eggs. "With contact lenses the chickens have less stress," he says. "They are calmer and easier to handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: The Egg and Eye | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...diameter red lenses, now being made in test-market quantities, will cost about 20? a pair and last the laying life of the bird, about a year. Wise says the tranquilizing effect works not only for hens, but for turkeys, pheasants and even pigs. Not, however, for quail. Far from being calmed, they go berserk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: The Egg and Eye | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

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