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...sports pages will want to pick out who its characters are based on. Since Gent's autobiographical hero has move from offense to defense, is cornerback Ezra Lytle--a cuckold who gets his kicks with 11-years-olds--modeled at least in part on the Cowboy star of yore, Lance Rentzel? And who really is L.D. Groover, the 270-lb. defensive tackle and disciple of Wilhelm Reich who jerks off in a rabbit-fur-lined Coldspot? No matter...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Why Are We in Texas? | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

...gabbers gabbed of yore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1979 | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...COURSE the unrest, the problems, the strange ways in which dissatisfaction was expressed, all get lost when one simply looks on the '50s as those hilarious days of yore. Such a view is perhaps forgiveable in musicals and comedies, but even serious movies such as "Buddy Holly" and more recently September 30, 1955 fall prey to this distillation process. September 30, 1955 is without a doubt the worst example of this trend. It is also one of the worst movies, regardless of its theme, to come out in the last year. In this movie, James Bridges (director of "Paper Chase...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: Distorted Hindsight | 1/4/1979 | See Source »

...this era of sexual emancipation are parents as uptight as of yore in discussing sex with their kids? Yes, indeed. That at least was the word last week from a Kinsey-type study called Family Life and Sexual Learning, prepared by the Project on Human Sexual Development. The researchers spent three years probing the attitudes of 1,400 mostly young Cleveland parents and concluded that they are as reticent in talking about sex as their parents were. The report's highlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Parental Line | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...island waters. The booty includes everything from cargoes of fish to duty-free goods being trafficked in a centuries-old barter trade between East Malaysia and the Philippine island of Mindanao. "The greed of the pirates is unbelievable," says a Malaysian official. One ruthless pirate tradition of yore prevails: walking the plank. Of 500 victims attacked by buccaneers off the southern Thai provinces of Trat and Chantaburi last year, more than 300 drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: The Jolly Roger Still Flies | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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