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Street Stud. The petals are all bruised in Miss Janie: an ice-cool, second-rate white guitarist; a cocky, unconsciously comic black nationalist; an ex-beatnik Jewish poet adrift on drugs; a dutiful black wife two-timed by her best friend, who comes through the back door every time she goes out the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Requiem for the '60s | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

...short, four-class living provides freshmen with a taste of upperclass sanity, based on experience, which has proved itself to be reassuring, at the very least, to those adrift in what may be a very turbulent sea called Harvard...

Author: By Nancy Toff, | Title: Housing: Segregating freshmen and sophomores could ghetto-ize the House system | 4/22/1975 | See Source »

...Carney's mournful Popeye face is to encounter the resignation of an aging bullfighter contemplating his last fight. Only this time Art has won both ears and the tail. He was the surprise winner of an Oscar for his gentle, ruminative portrayal of a 72-year-old Odysseus adrift with his orange cat in Harry and Tonto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Art Who? | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

Seeking to escape a childhood of drudgery, Anna married a tough young vagabond named Big Karl whom she met at a barn dance. He promised freedom and adventure, but the dream went unrealized: for seven years she followed him up and down Norway, always adrift and usually starving. She worked at various times as a farmhand and lumberjack, only to watch him disappear and squander her money...

Author: By Robert W. Keefer, | Title: A Twentieth Century Slave | 4/17/1975 | See Source »

Though Chancellor Schmidt cautiously endorsed Brandt's notion, many Europeans believed that it would mean the dismantling of the Common Market, with Britain and Italy cast adrift. "One can say that the main reason Italy is still democratic and not fascistic is that it is tied to the rest of Europe," says Rome University Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti. "If Italy is cut loose, it will truly become a disaster." Brandt's proposal, adds an American diplomat, would mean "the breakup of the Community on the installment plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Can the Common Market Survive? | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

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