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...each move to make sure he doesn't become an instant cliché." The translation for that is a mix of limited television exposure and carefully spaced albums. (On his new album Let's Get Small, now climbing the charts, Martin recalls his cat's latest bath: "The fur stuck to my tongue, but other than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Comedians | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...know why or by who, just knows that he hurts and it's cold and he can't stay much longer because the good guys don't want his germs in their apple pie and there's only a seat in the church pew if you've had a bath in the last week. And he tries to light a joint; fourth time defeats the wind and the drizzle. The match illuminates thin, brittle wrists, hollow brown face, crows-feet that are a mockery on this head with eyes that could be 15 or 50, skin drawn tight, and always...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Strangers in the Night | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

Tell all your readers to come to El Paso. You can find a nice three-bedroom, two-bath home in a good neighborhood for around $35,000. Furthermore, our taxes-state, county, school district, hospital, city-run about 1% to 2% of the market value of the house. There are no state or local income taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1977 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...never knew how deprived I was to have to sleep in the same room with my two brothers, mother and grandmother until sociologists and urbanologists informed me later. I didn't realize it was primitive to have to heat water on a coal stove for my Saturday night bath and to have to use the back-porch toilet until I was grown. Yet I feel lucky when I see many of today's youngsters leave their modern, publicly financed housing projects not realizing what respect, love, compassion or soap and water are all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 19, 1977 | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Most buyers want more space and amenities, and they are buying a lot more house than in previous years. In 1950 the typical new house was only 894 sq. ft. in area, usually with two bedrooms, one bath, no garage and few built-in appliances. By 1971 the median dwelling had grown to 1,375 sq. ft. and last year to 1,590 sq. ft. Almost half of today's new homes have central air conditioning (up from little more than one-third in 1971), and two-thirds have two or more bathrooms (up from one-half in 1971). Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing: It's Outasight | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

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