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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does a male with equipment akin to parts in a car junkyard and intent on lovemaking conceal such surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...them were human before he started doing these terrible things to them. Of course, he cannot afford to let his visitors return to earth with news of his malefactions, and besides he's about to pop down the black hole and doesn't really believe in car pools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Space Opera | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...driving to work bumper to bumper? Envious of those zigzagging Corvettes, Porsches and Ferraris that smoke past you in the fast lane? Well, cheer up, bunkies. Last week on a dry lake bed at California's Edwards Air Force Base, Hollywood Stunt Man Stan Barrett, 36, drove a car at 739.666 m.p.h. to become the first person ever to break the sound barrier on land. Barrett's car will not be in showrooms quite yet. The three-wheel vehicle was powered by a rocket engine as well as a Sidewinder missile to throw it into supersonic overdrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...Westerners have been allowed to visit Cambodia since the Vietnamese occupation. Last month, however, French Photojournalist Jean-Claude Labbe was permitted to make an unprecedented four-week tour of the country. Traveling by motorcycle and by car, without escort except for a 20-mile stretch near the Thai border, Labbe first rode from Sai- Saigon to Phnom-Penh, where he shot pictures of the devastated Cambodian capital beginning to stir to life again amid the rubble of war. He then drove along Cambodia's main arteries, Highways 5 and 6, visiting twelve provinces in a journey that totaled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Struggling Back to Life | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

When David Smith was killed in a car accident near Bennington, Vt., in 1965, America lost the best sculptor it had ever produced. In a quarter-century of work, Smith had taken the constructivist tradition of sculpture-images built up from rigid planes-from where Pablo Picasso and Julio Gonzalez had left it in the '30s, and given it an extraordinary richness and amplitude. Indeed, his work in three dimensions was so magisterial that it blotted out the rest of his output. For Smith was not only a sculptor, but a draftsman, and his drawings, thousands in number, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dream Sculptures in Ink and Paper | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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