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Girl Friends is very easy to admire-from a distance. Shot on a shoestring budget with mostly unsung actors, this film was made by a young woman director working outside the studio system. Claudia Weill, co-director of Shirley Mac-Laine's documentary The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, raised the money for Girl Friends herself, then hawked the movie to distributors (eventually landing Warner Bros.). Although the film's real subject is female friendship, Weill is not a dogmatic feminist. Girl Friends tells of both men and women who suffer the pangs of young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: High Hopes | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

About 200 guests showed up at Washington's fashionable Club La Serre last week to celebrate the appearance of the Fleetwood Mac rock group. Among them: Chip Carter and House Majority Whip John Brademas, along with a sprinkling of Senators (Alan Cranston and Dick Clark) and political hopefuls (Bill Bradley and Yvonne Burke). Also there, natty in a navy blue suit, white shirt and tie, was the customarily casual White House Aide Hamilton Jordan. Said he: "Some of my critics in the city have told me that I would do better if I got out and socialized with members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Pie in Your Eye | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...absurdity, but plainly it is epidemic. Already the name thing has inspired the publication of whole books that purport to plumb the "psychological vibrations" of personal names. Dawn and Loretta and Candy are supposed to be sexy, according to Christopher Andersen's The Name Game, and Bart and Mac and Nate are macho. Humphrey is sedentary; so much for Bogart. Anyway Americans have not needed any tracts or theories to get them lunging after catchy handles. One Phoenix mother recently branded her new baby girl with the unforgettable sobriquet Equal Rights Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Game of the Name | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...never got the chance. His freshman year they switched Mac from linebacker to tight end, a move that cost him his playful revenge with me but indelibly etched his name in Harvard football memory...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Bob McDermott: A Tribute | 7/7/1978 | See Source »

...triumph over the Green, Mac tied a Harvard record, with three touchdown catches, the third a diving grab between two defenders. Against the Bruins, number 81 hauled in six passes to help Crimson quarterback Jim Kubacki to his finest...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Bob McDermott: A Tribute | 7/7/1978 | See Source »

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