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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps if Coppola had succeeded in his efforts to recruit a star for the part, Willard might have commanded an audience's interest and empathy by sheer force of personal magnetism. Having no star, the director tried a more desperate solution: he commissioned Journalist Michael Herr (Dispatches) to write a narration that attempts to fill in Willard's personality ex post facto on the sound track. That narration-alternately sensitive, psychopathic, literary, gung-ho and antiwar-is self-contradictory and often at odds with Willard's behavior. It does not establish the protagonist as a credible figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Making of a Quagmire | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...only journalist to accompany the group was TIME Senior Editor Stefan Kanfer, author of The Eighth Sin, a fictional account of the Nazi slaughter of European gypsies. His report of the journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HOLOCAUST: Never Forget, Never Forgive | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...stitched together out of a sprawling fuss of self-contained colonies whose fierce attachment to their little domains provided one of the knottiest obstacles to union. Later, ferocious regionalism helped contrive the nation's definitive crisis, the Civil War. After poking around in every cranny of modern America, Journalist John Gunther concluded a generation ago that for all its dazzling communications the U.S. was "enormously provincial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Local Chauvinism: Long May It Rave | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...Managua watch to Correspondent Roberto Suro, has reported on Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba, the Dominican Republic civil war in 1965 and the 1969 "Soccer War" between El Salvador and Honduras. Says Diederich: "The Nicaraguan civil war, which saw the cold-blooded execution of one American journalist [ABC's Bill Stewart], surpassed them all in sheer danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 13, 1979 | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

Equally hostile to capitalism, Marxism and the Judaeo-Christian tradition, New Righters look fondly back to pagan and Indo-European cultures for alternative social models. Explaining paganism's curious fascination for them, New Right Journalist Louis Pauwels says, "We do not wish to burn Bibles or churches, but their message is only part of the European tradition." Just as important, says Pauwels, are "the mores of the ancient pagan cultures and heroes like Prometheus and Faust, who show that man is made to conquer the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A New Right Raises Its Voice | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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