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In the midst of green savannah stretching undisturbed for miles lumbers a Rube Goldberg-like contraption garnished with walkways, conveyor belts, pipes, vents and ducts. With squeaks, clicks, belches and groans, it lurches forward, a 40-ft.-tall wheel revolving at its side. The twelve buckets along the wheel'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Sarah Digs a Great Canal | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

However, the line between negative advertising so blatant that it infuriates voters and slightly less ham-handed ads that impress them is elusive. In Texas, Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen won re-election with the aid of a TV ad that pictured a frail old woman walking to her mailbox, finding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '82: Slinging Mud and Money | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

Blame cannot be laid at the feet of the director, the veteran Don Siegel (Dirty Hurry), who does his best to keep Jinxed moving along smoothly. But he has nothing to work with, not even good trash. Sitting through Jinxed is like staring at your T.V. when nothing decent is...

Author: By Jean CHRISTOPHE Castelli, | Title: Low-Level Wastes | 11/6/1982 | See Source »

The television, its electrical cord trailing in the dirt like a useless tail, its great eye blank in the midday sun, was sitting in the center of the playground. In a semicircle around it stood a dozen four-year-olds, their eyes glazed, staring intently at the dark screen. Three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Getting Unplugged | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

In New York, Columbia's top executive, President Alan Hirschfield, expressed an emotion rare in Hollywood: shock. Although he loved the glamour and glitz of films-Hirschfield once broke his toe tripping over the edge of a Jacuzzi while staring at Actress Polly Bergen-he was, as colleagues observed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Begelgate | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

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