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This is a highly melodramatized version of Novelist Jay Anson's allegedly factual bestseller about a nice normal family who moved into a haunted house on Long Island and then found themselves psychologically terrorized by things that go bump in the night. It has become one of the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bumping Along | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

In his thriller The Conversation, he offered the most sophisticated indictment of Watergate-era politics yet to appear onscreen. Given his talent for fusing ideas with the diverse demands of big-budget entertainment, Coppola was the only real candidate to make the definitive film about Viet Nam. Apocalypse Now promised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Making of a Quagmire | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

The U.S., to be sure, has always shown a lively interest in World War II, but in the past few years the American appetite for war lore has begun to seem downright voracious-and is being fed as though it might be insatiable. Bantam Books, for instance, has put out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: W.W. II: Present and Much Accounted For | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

She stands there in her dust-jacket photograph, a tiny woman of 95 Ibs., with the figure of a spare 14-year-old. She stares out with the enormous, haunted eyes of a Keane waif, of a wounded bird, menaced and fragile. Readers who have grown over the years to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Death Trips | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

I have never met anyone at Harvard able to match my tales of the people who lived in Stoughton my freshman year. Person for person, they were psychos. Zozo and Yarco, Stoughton's hulky Cuban sentinels, pouncing upon each girl as she entered the dorm: "What did you do tonight...

Author: By Susand D. Chira, | Title: Welcome to my Night-mare | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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