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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans cannot control the world like they once thought they could, so they get angry," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iran Crisis Involves Alumnus, Students, Professors | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

...starts. Except for the inevitable big race, it is not advanced visually but by bald snatches of voice-over dialogue. No doubt children in the audience will have a fine time anyway; they may even enjoy the film's prosaic conclusion more than its arty opening. Still, adults cannot be blamed if The Black Stallion 's highly disappointing final stretch motivates them to take a trot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Ride on a Dream Horse | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...lugubrious context of a picture like The Divine Nymph. The film is yet another period piece, this time set in Italy during the 1920s. One be gins to wonder if the people who produce Antonelli's movies are under the impression that so lush a lady simply cannot be accepted in a contemporary context. Or it may be that her oddly innocent air prevents them from seeing her as representative of a more modern sexuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Glum Gavotte | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Reporters admire the way Carter frankly admits it when he either does not know something or simply does not want to answer a question. They also appreciate his guarded guidance when they are on the right track but he cannot officially elaborate. "Read your own work," he may say, or "I don't have any trouble with that." Says Carter's boss, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance: "Hodding performs one of the most difficult tasks in Government with mastery. In Hodding's job the difference between the right word and the almost right word, as Mark Twain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Diplomat on the Podium | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...blame for Graham's supposed servility on one event, however traumatic, seems risky at best--irresponsible at worst. And Davis cannot produce any convincing evidence that Graham does dance to the Administration's beat. The Washington Post did smugly support Johnson's Vietnam policy on its editorial pages, but so did countless other newspapers. Calling Graham servile because The Post supported LBJ's Vietnam policy is patently absurd. Nor does Davis propound any solid evidence that Graham acutally bends her news coverage toward the pleasures of her "father figure" in the White House...

Author: By Paul E. Hunt, | Title: Whipping The Post | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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