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June 23, 1980

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Why Are Movies So Bad Now?

Hollywood’s managerial sharks might fancy themselves creative giants, Pauline Kael writes, but what they’re really into are the numbers.

Pauline Kael, "Why Are Movies So Bad Now?": Hollywood's decline diagnosed, Kael on the industry's failures.

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1980: THE FINAL ROUND

REPORTER AT LARGE about the last stage of the primary contests for the Presidential nomination. The last primaries were held in 8 states on June 3. Carter …

Ferdinand La Menthe

Whitney Balliett

PROFILE of Ferdinand La Menthe, popularly known as Jelly Roll Morton, the jazz pianist who died in 1941. Much of Morton's fame has benn posthumous, as …

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