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...Late-Summer Athlete (Hospes strenuous). As the calendar winds down to Labor Day, he (or she) coaxes colleagues away from a leisurely meal, hauls them up from blankets in the sun and hammocks in the shade-all in the name of Sport. For the victim, no pest coil or 90-day collar will serve as repellent. No, the only proven method of defense is Summer Gamesmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Summer Gamesmanship | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

...Godfather, Don Vito Corleone. Yet superb as he is, Brando is merely reclaiming a position already staked out. In some ways more exciting are the clutch of little-known younger performers who burst forth in the film. Of these, none is more compelling than a short, brooding coil of tension named Al Pacino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Godsons | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...some musician to elevate to the rank of "superstar." People such as the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, James Taylor, the Cream, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young have been accorded this dubious honor, but none has displayed much real staying power. Hendrix and Joplin shuffled off their mortal coil after three albums apiece, and none of the rest of them has been able to do anything exciting since each of their second records. A new Lennon Harrison, Dylan, or Stones release can still create more excitement for rock freaks than a disc from any of the others...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: Some of the New Stuff | 10/20/1971 | See Source »

...clear plexiglass base. Robert Irwin, another westerner, showing in Boston for the first time, projects lights on an acrylic semisphere to create an illusionistic, technological flower. David Diao and Philip Wofford texturize their canvases with drips and smudges in the Jackson Pollock tradition. Dan Christensen has painted a coil and glow like neon lights, and Larry Poons has left the confines of his precisely contoured complementary-colored dots and spews them into space. The room leaves hardedge, inhuman works to another era, and raises the question, "Has the lyrical come back to stay...

Author: By Meredith A. Palmer, | Title: Three for the Show | 10/9/1971 | See Source »

...Valley Stream, N.Y., has been arrested seven times "and jailed a total of 42 days in four states for preaching what the Government says should be practiced. In the latest episode, Baird was lecturing one evening in Huntington, N.Y. On a bulletin board he displayed two diaphragms, an intrauterine coil and other contraceptive devices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: What is Morality? | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

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