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James admits to no special acuity as a film critic or tea-leaf reader-"How should Ted James know what makes a great movie?"-and cautions that "the film industry is among the most difficult to forecast. We analysts just have to have the courage of our convictions and hope we're right 51% of the time." In their executive offices on Dopey Drive, the Disney people are hoping that Ted James is right only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tremors on Dopey Drive | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...this ardent puritan reconcile her contradictions? It is the one question neglected by the conscientious Miller, a Marquette historian who got to know Day while writing a study of the Catholic Worker movement. He owes himself and his reader a hypothesis instead of the oddly sad tension he leaves in the air surrounding the halo of his admirable overachiever. We feel her humanitarianism for ourselves. Her ecstasy (religious or otherwise) we have to take Miller's word for. Was she ever quite at ease with herself-her selves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Secular Saint | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...Tierney, Joan Fontaine and Ingrid Bergman. There cannot be many Hollywood giants left who have not been treated in one book or another. To peruse even a few thousand pages of these literary star treks, however, is to realize that they do not bring unmitigated pleasure to the ordinary reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What the Stars Are Really Like | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...Reader Walter Jowers [June 14] should know that we who sired his generation endured the Depression, worked our way through college (no Government loans then), served in at least one war, raised and educated large families (the Pill arrived a bit late for us), stuck to often dull and difficult jobs (nobody told us we should be dropping out, doing our own thing, and fulfilling our own needs), cared for our aging parents and paid into Social Security for 30 years. Now in our golden years, we are finding ourselves accused of greed and selfishness. What a deal, indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 5, 1982 | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...wrong because success depends on superiority in numbers in both equipment and manpower, and the United States possesses neither when compared to the USSR. The group believes that to win a war with the USSR we must develop the strategy of "maneuver warfare." Adoption of this strategy would reader the fiscal year 1983 and subsequent year budgets obsolete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defense Spending | 7/2/1982 | See Source »

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