Word: film
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Black women began adopting it in the early 1970s: the venerable African custom of wearing hair woven into small, tight braids fastened at the ends with cowries, beads and sometimes feathers. But since blond Starlet Bo Derek turned up sporting the style in this season's hit film comedy "10, "women of all hues have been badgering hairdressers for what they call "the Bo look." It does not come cheap: a braiding job costs anywhere from $80 to $300, and it takes four to eight hours to finish. But once done, the hair can be shampooed daily and will...
...Sundays, beginning Jan. 27.) Perhaps the hardest thing to capture on film is a mind at work, and scriptwriters usually resort to obvious devices: a composer tinkling tunes on the piano, a novelist tearing paper out of his typewriter or a scientist pouring foul-looking glop from one test tube into another. But revealing thought in action is exactly what the creators of this new BBC series have done, and the size of their achievement is indicated in the title. The mind they are portraying is that of Charles Darwin; the idea they are presenting is the evolution of life...
...admitted at all. Eight days after Babrak Karmal was installed as the country's new President, the borders were reopened, and some 300 foreign journalists, half of them Western, were al lowed in. Almost immediately there was tension. Photographers snapping pictures of Soviet troops found themselves detained, their film confiscated. One ABC news team tried to avoid interference by entering Afghanistan from Pakistan to film a guerrilla maneuver, only to find that the skirmishes occurred by night. So the newsmen turned on their battery-powered floodlights in the dark. That move attracted the Pakistan army, which rapidly escorted them...
After a Jan. 10 news conference in which President Karmal castigated the Western press, the Afghan welcome wore thinner. Two Italian TV newsmen were treated to a burst of semiautomatic rifle fire at their feet when they tried to film Soviet soldiers near the Salang Pass. A Kabul-based stringer for Germany's Der Spiegel had her car tires shot flat. TIME'S David DeVoss, traveling with Dutch Photographer Hubert Van Es, was stopped by Soviets northwest of Kabul when Van Es tried to photograph some newly widened artillery pits. The pair was held in a snow-filled...
...broth) and mutton, or drinking Czech pilsner beer in the hotel bar. Here one evening last week a sheepish employee announced that all American newsmen were to have their passports checked in the lobby by two Afghan policemen. Instead, the U.S. newsmen sallied forth with blazing floodlights and whirring film cameras. Terrified, the Afghan policemen fled. But the reprieve was short-lived. By 8 the next morning, armed Afghan police sealed off the hotel and placed the 20 or so Americans there under house arrest until they could be deported. Said Gul Ahmed Faried, Afghanistan's chief press censor...