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...always, that fifth season-"mud" -oozed through Vermont and New Hampshire, where the coo of the mourning dove gave way to the growl of four-wheel-drive vehicles pulling unsuspecting travelers out of the region's annual goo. The 949 frugal residents of Plainfield, Vt., authorized a study to see if they should keep their dirt roads-potholes and all-instead of paving them with expensive, and unprofitable, asphalt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEASONS: Spring: It's Lethal and Lovely | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

Look. Two men jitterbug their drunk way down Lansdowne Street, shreiking and twirling and smashing into hard brick walls. Their noise intrudes in this damp, silent alley; the warehouses know no human sound or stink from five p.m. to nine in the morning. The men wail deep and coo softly, as if speaking through thin silk stockings...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: The Half-hearted Hustle | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...offensive. His newest target for simple patronization is fat people. THE DUMPLINGS (NBC, Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.)-don't you just love the title?-are chubby James Coco and padded Geraldine Brooks. They are the proprietors of a Mom and Pop lunch counter who are required to coo repulsively at each other and rub flab, while their slender customers express ironic wonder that these lard tubs are actually happier than they are. Gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints: The Second Season | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

...elevator doors close behind you on the seventh floor of William James Hall, the stink of pigeon droppings consume the air. To your right is a laboratory filled with behavioral science's elite corps of experimental organisms. There they coo and peek in their numbered lofts, the proud and nameless pigeon menagerie that once controlled and were controlled by B.F. Skinner. At one time, some of these birds played ping pong in Skinner boxes. Some spend time dancing together--also in boxes. Some were conditioned to hobble around in figure eights. Others were lucky enough...

Author: By Joy Horowitz, | Title: Under Skinner's Skin | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

When Birdie comes to the town of Sweet Apple he sings "You Got to be Sincere" and town's women shriek, coo and spoon over the rotating hips of the star. As part of the spoof, the director has emphasized the sexual overtones and their excitement is transformed into something very much like masturbation. One woman, sitting in the front row with her seven-year-old child was so shocked, was so shocked she walked...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Sexism Put to Music | 11/16/1974 | See Source »

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