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On a chill December night in 1948, Whittaker Chambers led two investigators from the House Committee on Un-American Activities into a pumpkin patch on his Maryland farm. From inside a hollowed-out pumpkin he produced several rolls of microfilm: copies of secret Government documents that, he claimed, had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Bizarre Political Mystery | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

A few days later, HUAC members, spurred on by first-term California Congressman Richard Nixon, called Eastman Kodak to check on the film's emulsion numbers. They got bad news: the film could not have been manufactured before 1945, which meant that Chambers must be lying. Furious, Nixon phoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Bizarre Political Mystery | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

The stage is split by the audience which is seated at nightclub tables, a nice touch along with the intimate lighting. On one side of Cabot's dining room stands the bate setting of Cliff's room (which is soon shared by Sally) and his landlady's chambers, the dancing...

Author: By Abby Mcganney, | Title: Cabot-aray | 5/4/1984 | See Source »

From the start, this band had a sound recklessness. was both brash and melodic. The Pretenders burned through the pomp and pose that had crusted over the British punk movement by 1980. Other bands, similarly adept and not so heavily brushed by fate, disintegrated. The Pretenders, to everyone's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tunes from the Deep End | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

Anticipating such questions, the bill helpfully provides "special findings on pornography." If it ever passes (immediately after the mayor's veto proponents vowed to bring it up again), the findings are destined to be the most famous gifts from social science to law since footnote eleven of Brown vs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Pornography Through the Looking Glass | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

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