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From the outside, it looks like something out of Buck Rogers-a 70-story silo of glass that is at once Atlanta's tallest building and the world's tallest hotel. Inside, guests enter a seven-story-high lobby big enough to hold a triple-level lounge, a forest of Ficus trees and a half-acre lagoon fed by fountains and a 100-ft.-wide waterfall. All the while, glass-enclosed elevators whiz like space capsules past the 1,100 guest rooms to a revolving rooftop restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Building Fantasies for Travelers | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...Harvard is a foot dragger and a buck-passer," complained Sherman Holcombe this week, after the embattled shop steward of the Radcliffe dining halls was suspended Tuesday following an argument with his supervisor...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Tuesday the Cook Was Suspended | 2/21/1976 | See Source »

Different Dances. Another experimental work which, as its title suggests, is wonderfully uncategorizable. Choreographed and performed by Stephen Buck, who teaches at Studio 205 in Boston, and two of his dancers. At the First Congregational Church, 11 Garden Street, February 20-22 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Dance | 2/19/1976 | See Source »

...makes dies." By the time Lily Tomlin came on to host the fifth show, SN had a cult following. She made it a smash, her double-edged style and swift undercuts setting off SN's frenzied variety. Suddenly, everyone wanted to act as host: Richard Pryor, Elliott Gould, Buck Henry, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, the British satirists, and this week Dick Cavett. The writers, of course, want someone a little different: King Olav of Norway, Patty Hearst ("but we don't want to blow her defense"), Ernest and Julio Gallo with Cesar Chavez as their guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flakiest Night of the Week | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...company for that," Col. "Bat" Guano tells Mandrake as he shoots open a soda machine in order to get enough change to call the W hite House. General Ripper's discussion of Purity of Essence ranks with the great madnesses of all time. George C. Scott's portrayal of Buck Turgidson is far better than his Patton. Best of all, Peter Sellers managed to create Henry Kissinger five years before Nelson Rockefeller did. The climactic line of the film, "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk again" comes the closest I can think of to the epitaph for the twentieth century. Sellers...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: THE SCREEN | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

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