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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interpretation. An endless stream of names, places, death tolls and other gruesome details flashes past, making the book itself a hurricane of facts that often leaves the reader bewildered. There is no real weight, no meaning attached to the cyclone of detail--and when Allen attempts an occasional bit of philosophy, the effort just seems awkward and out of place...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: A Howling Good Tale | 2/12/1977 | See Source »

...seems a bit abstruse to you, well, you are not in the minority: the question asked by most people outside the course was, "What in hell does sport have to do with political ideology...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Winthrop Class Explores Unknown Area | 2/10/1977 | See Source »

...lyrics are a bit violent and sick--we're engaged to writing sick songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROCK | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...shifts in time; the changes it makes in people and their ideologies. If the protagonists end up on a farm outside Geneva as anachronistic misfits with absurd jobs and lifestyles, it's not because they are misfits, but survivors. They are guardians, and if the flame glows a bit dimly at times, well, there's always hope for the child Jonah. The movie would border on the maudlin if it didn't poke fun at itself and bourgeois society constantly. When Jonah turns at the end of the film and smiles impishly at you, the sunshine that gleams through this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...horizon. For those of you planning your itineraries after the Washington's Birthday break, you may be interested to know that John Handy, the man I am predicting will take disco and fuse it successfully with jazz--something he has done a bit already with Hard Work--will come into the Jazz Workshop, February 28 to March...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: JAZZ | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

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