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New Hampshire, the only state in the union with no sales or broad-based income tax, has been growing faster than any other Eastern state except Florida. More than one-third of its manufacturing labor force is now employed in technological industries. Exxon and Burroughs have recently bought land for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rebuilding Down East | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

There is, of course, another tune to New York. It is played on a cornet isolated from one of the George Gershwin songs in Manhattan and then carried above 96th Street and out to pockets of The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, where, alone, it sounds less like a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York, New York, It's a ... | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

Public Image Ltd.: Second Edition (Island/Warner Bros.). The weather forecast on the far frontiers of rock is a little cold and spooky, if this record is any indication. Alternately rigorous and unhinged, steam-heated and strangulated, Second Edition is the collective work of the band John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pick of the Season | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

A final observation, on another topic, regarding the excellent "Silhouette" of William Burroughs by Paul Attanasio (Feb. 1. pg. 2): In paragraph 2, The Crimson prepetuates a widely-repeated misnomer by referring to the Moroccan city of "Tangiers." It is Algiers, with an "s" that is the captial of Algeria...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harberger's Record | 2/6/1980 | See Source »

And then William Seward Burroughs, writer, gun enthusiast and wearer of polyester blazers, remarkably well-preserved for his 67 often dissipated years, got up and walked past his writer's desk and two Ouija boards, through the furniture store over which he lives, past the Salvation Army mission, to have...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: William Burroughs | 2/1/1980 | See Source »

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