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This is a pin wheel of a comedy, shooting off sparks of wit, menace and surprise at a fast clip. Two pairs of ill-assorted roommates are living in a high-rise apartment on a Northern California campus. There is Ward, a jock who scores as often off as on the field, sharing digs with Leeds, a malicious intellectual who can only win with wit. Right next door lives Ron, a microbiologist of genius, and his faithless wife Honor. When Ward boasts that he can seduce Honor, Leeds bets him that if he does so, Ron will kill Ward within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Word Games | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...world of the road is clearly another level of consciousness for Kunst," says Woodbury, "and it's easy to see why. After zipping along at a steady 4 m.p.h. clip, I came away bushed but pleasantly high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 14, 1974 | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

NCAA statistics show that Harvard's great split end McInally has moved into second place in the nation for receiving with a 6.5 reception per game average, and into third place in scoring (behind Fanelli) with a 12.0 clip per contest...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Tom Columns | 10/12/1974 | See Source »

...cases, restraint involved outright self-censorship. When two black teachers at South Boston High were beaten and their cars were smashed, the incident was ignored at WGBH-TV, the local public broadcast outlet, because station managers considered it to be inflammatory. Editors at WCVB-TV deleted from a film clip a shot of a white student making rude gestures in the presence of black children. A story about the arrival of a Ku Klux Klan officer in Boston that appeared in an early edition of the Evening Globe last Thursday was missing in later editions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cooling It in Boston | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

...Inventory Recession." Economists long looked forward to at least some slow real growth in production of goods and services late this year. Now they doubt it, primarily because business inventories have been piling up at an unhealthy clip. A rise of $10 billion in inventories for a full year is considered large, but newly revised figures show that in the last quarter of 1973 goods accumulated on shelves and in warehouses at an annual rate of almost $29 billion. In the first half of this year, the rate was close to $16 billion. Businessmen have developed a shortage-and-inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: Seeking Relief from a Massive Migraine | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

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