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Psychokinesis is the ability to focus and project mental influence on physical objects. Those who have it can, in theory anyway, move mountains or, if we are to believe The Fury, afflict people who cross them with ailments ranging from nosebleeds to cerebral hemorrhages, and worse. To most of us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blood Revenge | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

Like Nancy Dowd's script for Slap Shot, Casey's Shadow continually proves that men do not have a monopoly on first-rate sports reportage. Writer Carol Sobieski, working loosely from a story by John McPhee, takes a cynical attitude toward her characters' obsession with winning, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Horse Sense | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

All these "slanderers of socialism," as their regimes have dubbed them, accept socialism as an ideal, maintaining that it need not be repressive. A group of young French leftist intellectuals known as the "New Philosophers" is not so certain. Bernard-Henri Lévy, 28, one of the movement's most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Socialism: Trials and Errors | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

OBVIOUSLY, HOUSE productions cannot afford to spend much money on sets, but that does not excuse the lack of imaginative detail in Wyke's drawing-room. It was a clever idea to turn the Leverett House Old Library around on its axis, so to speak, converting the staircase that the...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Dime-Store Detectives | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

JACKSON BROWNE may well be the prototypical Southern California rock and roll star. Like the rest of the L.A. pop crowd, he's known for squeaky-clean vocals, introspection run rampant, a reliance on the studio pit crew of J.D. Souther, and Eagles Don Henley, Glenn Frey et al, and...

Author: By Bill Barol, | Title: Angst on Wheels | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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