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...carries? More than 200 yards? That's Big Ten stuff. That's not for some 5'11" Ivy Leaguer from North Babylon, New York...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: H-e-e-e-e-e-e-ere's Bobby! | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

Even so, the movie is likely to garner attention - largely because it delves so deeply into the Hollywood Babylon. Scandal animates every scene, and, according to the standards of the time, over heated melodrama becomes the order of the day. Pop Singer Michelle Phillips, for example, plays Natacha Rambova, Valentino's culturally aspiring second wife, as if she were trying out for a school play that unaccountably contains a nude love scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rudy II as Rudy I in a Gaudy Bust | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...been both a miracle and a counted blessing, one humanity has done nothing to deserve but cannot live without. And like all such blessings, people have been fiddling with it ever since, among other things to suit their convenience and enhance delight. At least as far back as Babylon, architects and engineers have tried to shape water into an art form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Shaping Water into Art | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

When I look at this country, a modern-day Babylon that is fast approaching its twilight, and see it wallowing in decadence, corruption, immorality and banality, I am proud to realize that absolutely none of it is of my making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1977 | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

Ellen Cooperman, 30, is an ardent feminist. She is a member of the National Organization for Women and runs her own business, producing feminist films in Babylon, a Long Island town 37 miles east of Personhattan. Personhattan? Well, if Ellen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Uncooperative | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

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