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...standards, the trial unfolding on the fifth floor of the Potter County courthouse in Amarillo was getting steamier by the minute. The state's prime witness was a platinum blonde who was known to wear a .32 strapped to her boot and a necklace that spells out RICH BITCH in diamonds; the defendant was her husband, one of the Lone Star State's richest men. The charge: murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Murder in Texas | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Turner frets that needless fast chases will continue until police attitudes are changed. "There's an ego problem," he explains. "Rookies, especially, tell themselves, 'No son of a bitch is going to beat me.' That type is dangerous?to himself and everyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Think Slow | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...slide did not begin until around the time "The Bitch is Back" rode up the charts in 1974. The bitch was back, alright, but the bitching sounded a bit contrived. Significantly, "The Bitch is Back" is the first cut on Elton's latest set of "greatest hits," and the song is one of the better cuts on the album. Of the ten songs included, two have something to say, two are fun in a simple, unelaborate way, one is drawn from the early part of Elton's career, and the other five are plainly boring...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: An Overdressed Piano Player | 10/18/1977 | See Source »

...shadowed this gritty, convincing thriller in shades of gray. He knows the variegated forms of middle age, of working-class London, of fear: "A thin spiral of smoke was curling up from one corner of the top. He could smell the almond scent. 'You son of a bitch,' said Thomas, looking straight down into the box . . . The hour hand was nearly touching the nipple of metal." Atwater's stage machinery creaks a bit as Thomas and his bomb-making opponent are brought together, but the resolution is authentic, and properly somber. The rights and wrongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tick, Tick, Tick | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...part, it came from Savage himself. Savage is quiet. He doesn't have much to say, at least not to outsiders, and as he admits, "I don't bitch about things...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: A Noble Savage | 9/28/1977 | See Source »

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