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None of the set pieces have much to do with the plot, which has Moore as a composer growing bored with his longtime inamorata (Julie Andrews). His discontent takes the form of an obsession with a lovely creature (Bo Derek) whom he briefly glimpses in bridal gown and veil on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Random Number | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

(8 of 10) of the P.R.I.'s middle-class supporters, who saw their savings and life-styles threatened. Mexico's support for a 1976 U.N. resolution equating Zionism with racism provoked a short-lived boycott of Mexican resorts by American Jewish tourists, thereby staggering an industry that is the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Macho Mood | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Such towering works as Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath earned him a Nobel Prize in 1962. But the honor did not bring a revival. Steinbeck declined into illness and disillusion. Kiernan reports that when the author died at 66, in 1968, he "had grudgingly accepted the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Insecure Laureate | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

The very name of the Clash signifies violence. Each of their songs contains a subtly disguised message hopelessly inappropriate for impressionable teens. These British hooligans tell listeners things like "Hate an War--the only things there are today," "Career opportunities are the ones that never knock," "If Adolf Hitler flew...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

Last year Harvard had a payroll of more than $150 million, but that had to cover 11,500 full-time employees as well as part-time workers. Daniel D. Cantor, director of personnel, points out that an inflationary spiral causes employee morale to topple because the depressed economy spills over...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Nine to Five in Harvard's Halls | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

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