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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Biograph, one of London's oldest movie houses, I used to see the OAPs in the afternoons. The usual price there is about 60 cents: for OAPs it's only 12. I suppose the Biograph was once luxurious, but now it has gone to seed, Besides amusing the OAPs it is, my roommate told me, a favorite haunt of homosexuals. He refused ever to go there even thought was only a block from where we lived in the center of London, and it showed films you couldn't see anywhere else. Mostly they were just bad--dubbed Italian epics about...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: A State of Welfare | 3/24/1972 | See Source »

...doing to yourself and your other four kids?" So at 46 I enrolled myself in college and am pursuing a career that I always wanted to try. And the kids haven't suffered a bit. They're proud that their mother is the world's oldest living senior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1972 | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...only card-carrying feminist is N.O.W. Member Elizabeth Richards, 59. A Radcliffe graduate, the wife of a lawyer and a member of one of Red Oak's oldest, wealthiest families, she joined N.O.W. "as soon as they opened up their membership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The New Feminism on Main Street | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...devils at all? Canadian Theologian Kenneth Hamilton blames demythologized religion. "Liberal Protestantism excluded anything that couldn't be explained. But you can't have religious faith without the existence of a world transcending this one. People are starved of anything transcendent, and they have gone to the oldest and crudest superstitions." Evangelist Billy Graham says that Satanism is on the rise because belief in Jesus is growing. "The devil," asserts Graham, "is also making his pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Raising the Devil | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...Godfather's sons, such glamorous candidates as Robert Redford, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson were ruled out in favor of lesser-known actors with a tougher, more authentic look: Al Pacino as Michael, the Ivy-educated son who succeeds the Godfather; James Caan as the lusty Sonny, the oldest son whose hot temper betrays him; Robert Duvall as the adopted son Tom Hagen, the lawyer who be comes the family's consigliere; John Cazale as Fredo, the timid, feckless son who is given a Las Vegas casino to play with. For the role of Luca Brasi, the Godfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Making of The Godfather | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

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