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SPECTATORS ENTER the gym and head for the cluster of audience seated on the east bleachers, prompting Boston choreographer Deborah Chassler to holler, "Could some of you move to the other side? The room will tip over if you all sit there...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Lines Almost Spoken | 3/18/1976 | See Source »

This fear is really a cluster of related fears. The perceived suffering is particularly acute these days because seniors must confront not only the usual threats of disappointing themselves, their parents, and their advisors, but because the changes in the economy and the society leave them fewer and fewer places to go. After all, these seniors who drop their theses immediately after admission to law school or grad school can't say with much conviction that they were in it for the love of scholarship. And considering what a drag it in fact is to produce one of these hundreds...

Author: By Chris Daly, | Title: Thesis Madness | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

...bright orange and blue blossom of the bird-of-paradise plant sways gently in the breeze. Moistened by a wintry rain, the leaves of an azalea shed pearls of water. Except for the tile mosaic of a skull that lies in their midst, the cluster of plants looks like just another pretty California backyard garden. In fact, the attractive foliage masks the sinister nature of the display. Located in a walled courtyard outside the pediatrics clinic at the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, Calif., the garden consists of 20 plants, all of them popular -and poisonous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Deadly Garden | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...addition to covering events on the slopes and rinks, TIME Staff Writer Philip Taubman explored Innsbruck's Olympic Village, a cluster of high-rise apartment buildings, shops and dining facilities that serves as home for some 2,000 participants and coaches at the Winter Games. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Village Life: An Orwellian Fantasy | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

...fall of 1974, NBC decided to replace its timeworn symbols, the rainbow-plumed peacock and the cursive cluster of letters known affectionately as "the snake." The network retained Lippincott & Margulies, a Manhattan firm specializing in corporate facelifts. After 14 months, at a cost estimated to be as high as $750,000, L. & M. produced an abstract N composed of two trapezoids, one red, one blue. NBC is now emblazoning the N on cameras, microphones, stationery, packaging, uniforms, and office walls. Probable total cost: another couple of million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Peacock v. the Pea | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

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