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When a film is as wrongheaded as this one, it is hard to know which flaws are the most damaging. Perhaps one begins with the lethargic Attenborough, who has managed to miscast the film's central role Hopkins cannot even begin to pass for the New York-bred, borscht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Tricks | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Every week or two Father Andrew Greeley writes a book. Well, all right, it only seems like every week or two: In fact, Greeley has turned out a mere 80 books in the past 20 years. His serious studies, like last year's The American Catholic: A Social Portrait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Andy's Answers | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

To Westerners, the Palestinian stance may seem hopelessly wrongheaded and self-destructive. After all, a return to terrorism by the P.L.O. tends to undermine Sadat, even though he has maintained steadfastly that he would make no deal with the Israelis without a provision for some sort of Palestinian homeland on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israel Severs the Arm | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

Energy. The more businessmen ponder the program that Carter presented to Congress in April, the less they like it. The program relies primarily on taxes to force conservation by raising the cost of fuel to consumers. To many executives, that is wrongheaded reliance on Government fiat. The emphasis, they think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter: a Problem of Confidence | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

Wrong-Headed. Labor's demand that more Government spending and less tax cutting be chosen as the way to create jobs is also wrongheaded, according to the White House. Because of long start-up times for many projects, the Government could not spend the money fast enough to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: When More Is Not Enough | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

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