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...torture of having nowhere to turn to avoid wasting your life causes a hollowness that is in evidence almost everywhere. It is expressed in a single sentence found on a graffiti-covered wall of the set. One might find it chalked onto some subway door or billboard in the city: "I was here but I disappear...

Author: By Ira Fink, | Title: Mama Died on 126th Street | 3/21/1974 | See Source »

...Legend. His full name was Solomon Isaievich Hurok. To his friends he was Sol. To the public, though, it was "S. Hurok Presents," an emblem that invariably appeared atop the newspaper ad, billboard poster or concert program. Beneath it ran names like Artur Rubinstein, Isaac Stern, Margot Fonteyn, the Royal Ballet, the Old Vic and, of course, the Russians he so ably promoted and profited by in the U.S.: Pavlova, Richter, Oistrakh, the Bolshoi Ballet and Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: S.Hurok (1888-1974) | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...seven nude males, each carrying a golf bag. "May we play through?" asked one. In Knoxville, Term., vowing that they would not be "outstripped by any state," scores of University of Tennessee students raced nude down Cumberland Avenue, even taking to the roofs to sit atop a second-story billboard and astride an ornamental bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Streaking, Streaking Everywhere | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...CLAIR, Gilbert O'Sullivan. Billboard's number two in January. Singsongy. A joke that isn't funny: Clair turns out to be a little girl, as in Johnny Rivers's "Memphis." Far below the level of O'Sullivan's "Alone Again Naturally," which preceded this song, and "Get Down," which followed...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Plums and Prunes | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

Over a movie house hung a billboard of a half-naked woman four stories high, lit up by spotlights--her hair disheveled, her eyes wild, her legs spread out, a gun in each hand...I looked at Zelig...I said to him, "If there...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Singer Suffers Uncertainty | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

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