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...season, second only to Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1978 grosses. Saturday Night Fever has started Travolta along a yellow-brick show-biz road that reaches out of sight, raised discomania to a national craze and made superstars of a likable rock group called the Bee Gees for the second, or maybe it's the third time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Steppin' to stardom | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...supposed to "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"? Against Spinks it was more like "Bloat like a butterball, swing like a flea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1978 | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

Oswald, according to Legend, later told friends that he had moved in a Communist circle in Tokyo when off duty from Atsugi. Other Marines were surprised to learn that he spent some of his liberty hours at the Queen Bee, one of Tokyo's three most expensive nightclubs and a suspected hangout for intelligence agents from various nations. Even though dates there cost up to $100 a night and Oswald took home less pay than that in a month, he began appearing at Atsugi with one of the Queen Bee's prettiest hostesses. When he was assigned temporarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Was Lee Oswald a Soviet Spy? | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...great, seemingly invincible giant of a man. Clay called Listen an "ugly old bear" and pranced around carrying a bear trap to the delight of the photographers. Budini Brown, Clay's corner man and cheerleader, gave his fighter the perfect line: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." That is precisely what he did. Cassius attacked, disappeared on those marvelously fast feet, attacked again, disappeared again, until the bear was beaten, helpless in his corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatest Is Gone | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...Ridge, Brooklyn disco scene. From the opening shot, a sweeping glance of Bay Ridge streets complete with pizzerias, neighborhood stores and the F train rumbling overhead, we know Tony is in control of his environment. In the background float the strains of "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees, who wrote and performed the movie's score. Tony works in a paint store, a job that proves singularly unpromising. But he really lives for Saturday night, when he and his friends hit the 2001: Odyssey discotheque...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Only a Slight 'Fever' | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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