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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain plays - and this is one of them - that can be called "blender drama" pureed bits of other, better works. The ingredients of Jeff Wanshel's comedy, Isadora Duncan Sleeps with the Russian Navy, are Tom Stoppard, Jules Feiffer and Pirandello, who seems as essential to this brand of ersatz drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Mixed Masters | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...know--a whole new brand of music was invented just for the occasion--"disco," it was called, to coincide, we guess, with the name of the pleasure domes in which it was played for common enjoyment. The music had a heavy, thumping beat, lots of strings and flourishes, and it made you shake your booty, so to speak. In the great melting pot that was disco, we all shook our booties together...

Author: By Diana R. Laing and Laura J. Levine, S | Title: DISCO | 2/18/1977 | See Source »

Horton and his linemates had to adjust to a faster, less hard hitting brand of hockey when they arrived at Harvard. "There's a lot more contact in the play I was accustomed to," Horton said. "Here I was hampered by the fact that I'm not a naturally graceful skater...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Dum,Da,Dum...Futuite B.U.! | 2/17/1977 | See Source »

...Racist Synthesis," (Crimson, 2/8/77) but perhaps we dislike seeing flagrant slanders and half-truths go unrebutted. Ms. Rosenthal represents two political organizations, the Committee Against Racism and the Sociobiology Study Group, part of Science for the People of Boston, yet she dares to continually attack those who dispute her brand of ideological orthodoxy with being "unscientific." She seems to posit some grand conspiracy advocating "immigration restriction, eugenics, imperialism, and anti-communism," originating in Spenser's Social Darwinism, continuing with the actions of "Nazi biologist[s]," and exhibiting itself today in "Arthur Jensen's revival of the doctrine of black genetic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Unjustified Attack | 2/12/1977 | See Source »

Pepsi's main Russian import is Stolichnaya vodka, distributed by the company's Monsieur Henri subsidiary. It is aimed at the caviar set, costing $7.99 a fifth-$2 more than U.S.-made Smirnoff, the bestselling brand. A newer import in which Pepsi finds promise is a champagne called Nazdorovya, said to be the product of vineyards planted in 1870 on Czar Alexander II's estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Profiting from Pepskis | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

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