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...entertaining enough to attract and hold what its research staff finds to be a TV-savvy, channel-hopping and, hence, "fearsomely tough" audience. In this they will undoubtedly be successful: The Electric Company jolts along at breakneck pace, acharge with knockout graphics, funky score, zonky electronic effects and berserk wit. It takes healthy cognizance that the TV generation is into games Dick and Jane never played. Fargo North Decoder, is a crack word detective, Easy Reader a hip-talking addict of the printed word, and Julia Grownup a butterfingered TV chef, whose recipes become a kind of primer. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sesame Seedling | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

...schizophrenic, as he explores the passions and fears of one of his characters. But that was nothing compared with the multiple-screen images-slides and film of doomed faces, vacant eyeballs, writhing bodies, running women-that delved into the past, present and future like a Bergman movie gone berserk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Mass for Everyone, Maybe | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...berserk to think of Jesus as a revolutionary. He was a counter-revolutionary enemy of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 12, 1971 | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

...there is not so much violence over racial issues here, it is because most Aussies are too apathetic to speak of these matters, much less act. But just try putting milk in their cups before the tea or spill their grog and they go berserk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1971 | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...soon found the first dead man. What followed turned into a grisly mess that outranks the more gruesome mass murders of the recent American past: the 1966 killing of 16 by Charles Whitman, the University of Texas tower sniper; the gunning down of 13 people in Camden, N.J., by berserk Howard Unruh in 1949; the murder of eight student nurses in Chicago by Richard Speck five years ago. The Yuba City murders, like the 1969 Sharon Tate killings, had a special dimension of monstrosity. The murders were apparently executed systematically over a two-month period, so it was not simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Death in the Orchards | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

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