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...course, that detailed narrative was not offered by either of us. Rather, the Pointer Sisters record, that profound ditty, managed to join us in the front seat of the car at least three times every hour with their boot-warming rendition of "Fire...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg and Laura E. Schanberg, S | Title: On the Road | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

...tell you who I want; Boot ... Do you read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Years of Total Waugh | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...economic ruin' of his country, Tehran's Ayatullah Taleghani replied firmly: 'We do not mind at all that the economy is destroyed. In the West, the economy is above freedom. Here, freedom is now above the economy. After 50 years of living under the boot and heel of imperialism, we have no other purpose than achieving freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Waiting for the Ayatullah | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...1970s were the decade in which Modernism died. Its Boot Hill turned out to be the U.S., in whose hospitable soil the dreams of the pioneers of modern art and architecture lie buried, toes to the rising sun. Once they hoped the world would be made whole by new paintings and new buildings. It was not, and there is no avant-garde any more; the very phrase has been scrapped, becoming one of the historical curiosities of criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Their Own Thing | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...film by dragging in J. Edgar Hoover for a little fun. But Hoover comes off as the same old commie-hating tyrant everyone has seen before. Friedkin fails to embellish this stock figure in any way. It isn't terribly original and it's not funny to boot...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: It's Been Done Before | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

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