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People have become deeply suspicious of the food they eat. Convenience foods and the microwave ovens in which to prepare them have turned the supermarket into an additive minefield: saturated fat, nitrites, saccharin, sodium and caffeine. Shoppers pause, read package labels, searching for poisons real or suspected. Amid the latest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Shapes Up: One, two, ugh, groan, splash: get lean, get taut, think gorgeous | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

ROBERT FLETCHER'S SET--a vertical knotty-panelled interior with assorted window and balconies--recalls the days when sets were inorganic pegs on which to hang the actors, rather than metaphorical expressions of a production's point of view. But then again, this production has no point of view. Director...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: 'The Pity of It,' Iago | 10/30/1981 | See Source »

A blue-suited SWAT team rushes sporadically through cell blocks, sometimes after midnight, to shake down prisoners for weapons. More than 100 assorted shivs and shanks (rodlike weapons often shaped from mop-bucket handles), as well as revolvers, have been seized. A sniper in one of the guard towers has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hellhouse Becomes a Madhouse: New Mexico State Penetentiary | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

In all likelihood, the shock of Sadat's murder will impede the rapid growth of the fundamentalist movements for the time being. But, as one Egyptian scholar cautions, "the huge base of sympathizers, which may number in the millions, is still in place." Almost everyone agrees that the militants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: Mubarak Takes Over | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

Germany's contribution is Ludwig van Beethoven, an eleven-hour series in which Leonard Bernstein conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in all nine symphonies and assorted lesser works. By the standards of commercial television, the American 60% is made up of generally low-budget productions: the dance troupes of Twyla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Cable's Cultural Crapshoot | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

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