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Annabel, the flirtatious blond, ends up as a buyer for Bloomingdale's; Daphne, the Golden Girl, hides her epilepsy from her friends, marries a Harvard jock and has a mongoloid daughter; Chris, the shy romantic, marries a homosexual; Emily, the rich Jewish girl, dreams of med school and settles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

Territorial Rights, the latest of Spark's engaging deceptions, is a suspense story set in Venice and full of corruption and intrigue. Clues, coincidences and characters are linked in the sort of intricate plot that seems to come effortlessly to Spark. Robert, a student of art history and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Venetian Affair | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

The bloodletting scenes aside, Director Ridley Scott (The Duellists) settles for mere competence or even less. He signposts plot developments; the meanderings of the ship's pet cat too often precede the alien's attacks. Scott's allusions to other hit movies do not reflect well on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sell Job | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

The race itself is a catharsis for all this tension. Boats begin from a dead standstill, and are quickly accelerated by short, fast strokes. The frenzy of those first few seconds is more than psychological--an oarsman must pull two square feet of wood through ten feet of water and...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: Crew Takes To The Charles: Avast There, Ye Lubbers! | 4/3/1979 | See Source »

Dinah, a woman of parts, manages with fearsome practicality: "I know my needs are going to drive me into relationships with men and I know those relationships won't always be controllable. But in the overall plan of my life I budget for that." As a novelist, Hermitage is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aprille Fools | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

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