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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Between Time and Timbuktu, at Off The Wall, should attract Kurt Vonnegut fans. The film was written by Vonnegut, incorporating much of his fiction, and made by WBGH. It features Bob and Ray, Bill Hickey and Kevin McCarthy. Vonnegut is slick, commercial and unfunny but there's no accounting for taste. Off The Wall is at 861 Main Street in Cambridge...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: THE SCREEN | 1/15/1976 | See Source »

...majority of the world's child psychologists and child psychiatrists. Our universities and, increasingly, our high schools devote themselves to a proliferation of courses in child development. Journalists offer daily newspaper advice on child rearing. Books (and there are dozens of them) like those written by Dr. Spock attract an enormous, eager and sometimes all too gullible readership. The prevailing concern of parents is not what the child ought to believe and live up to (in the way of standards, rock-bottom beliefs, a religious faith) but what is "best" for the child. Every effort is made to "understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: Growing Up in America--Then and Now | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...Organization of Oil Exporting Countries), as well as states whose development may be guaranteed by other key natural resources: Zaire and Zambia (copper), Morocco (phosphates), Malaysia (tin, rubber and timber). Into this group also fall nations like Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Mexico and Brazil, which are developed enough to attract foreign investment and borrow on commercial terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Poor vs. Rich : A New Global Conflict | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...careen around a paved track, off-road competition masses as many as eleven different classes of vehicles in a bone-jolting race against time across the desert. Subsidized by major auto companies and parts manufacturers, California championship races that three years ago appealed to barely 3,000 people now attract crowds of 45,000, who stand along the dusty trails to watch. Last week TIME Correspondent David DeVoss rode two laps as co-driver in a newly inaugurated race, the Laughlin, Nev., 300. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 115-m.p.h. Madness | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...aquatic existence; its musculature allows it to scramble over land, paddle through water, and close its eyes while underwater; and its extremely sensitive bill allows it to find food below the surface. Temple-Smith says, "When we were rowing about at night, the sound of the paddles would attract the animals...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Platypus Crackers | 12/18/1975 | See Source »

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