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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interviewer who has dropped out to do some soul searching in Southern California; a woman writer with the disconcerting habit of throwing her voice at crucial emotional moments; a dim-bulb movie star and her producer paramour, who keeps his wealth in a sock drawer and begins too many sentences with the phrase entre nous: these are the featured players in New York Disc Jockey Jonathan Schwartz's resonant first novel. At a glance, it may seem another tour of Joan Didion's empty existential horizons -damaged people failing to communicate in a dry land. But Schwartz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...been said, by a malicious Polish wit, that it takes five Southern Californians to unscrew a light bulb, four of whom share the experience. Thus it was on the hills above Malibu Beach, where the experience shared over the past three weeks was a construction crew's herculean effort to remove a 116-ton boulder that had perched over a row of fancy houses lining the Pacific Coast Highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Rock of Ages | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Light Bulb...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Pudding May Sublease Building Space | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...fire started about 1:30 p.m. when a reading lamp overturned so that the bulb was touching the mattress of the top bunk of a bunk bed, Allison Baird '82 said yesterday...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: Extinguishers Fail to Operate In Pennypacker Mattress Fire | 11/7/1978 | See Source »

...most sensitive character in the film, a broken man who retains an appreciation for the spontaneous quip and the caresses of a pet cat. He most eloquently conveys Max's impotent despair when he discovers the danging carcass of his feline hanging from the cord of a light bulb in the prison, an odious testimony to the malice of the prison guard Rifki (Paolo Bonacelli...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Busted at the Border | 11/4/1978 | See Source »

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