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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helplessly while her husband and two of their children were beaten to death shortly after the capital fell to the Khmer Rouge in 1975. The crime of the doctor and his children: they belonged to the intellectual class. Said the widow: "I didn't cry, for to have done so would have meant death for me and, more important, for my only surviving child. To cry would have meant that I disapproved of the Angka 's decision to kill my husband and two children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Pol Pot's Lifeless Zombies | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...Justin was known as the "little director," because he was so curious about how and why things were being done. "I know all about wardrobes and what it's like to be a movie star, but the glamour isn't as good as it looks," he says with appropriate cynicism. "It can be very boring, you know. I don't think I'd like to act full time. There just isn't enough time to see your friends," His real ambition, he confesses, is to have a farm in Colorado with his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Kids a Real Natural | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...same thing, sometimes with less admiration than Jaffe. Hoffman, 42, is known in Hollywood as the archetypical difficult actor. But for all those critics Hoffman has a word of caution. "They should think twice before they rail against me," he told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "They may have done their best work with me. I'm like that clocker who is always saying, 'Come on! Come on! Come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Father Finds His Son | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...your thought there?' I had never worked with an actor like that. He is eternally dissatisfied with what he has achieved. Right now he isn't negative about Kramer. But I have no doubt that in six months he'll be saying, I should have done it differently.' " Maybe not this time. Kramer is more than just another film to Hoffman. He has a special feeling toward children-and they toward him. "He's one of those natural fathers," says Benton. "Kids drift to him instinctively and immediately. For that reason I worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Father Finds His Son | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...nothing else, the me-too familiarity of almost all the leading candidates shows just how intractable the nation's economic problems really are. So far, the challengers to Carter in Campaign 1980 have done little more than rehash the safe, the secure and the unexciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Candidates' Me-Too Ideas | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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