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...moray struck, needle teeth fastening on the man's neck, throat convulsing as it pulled back toward the hole. Blood billowed out of the sides of the moray's mouth." That moray eel, which figures in the book's penultimate scene, is unlikely to start a craze or appear on T shirts. As for The Deep, it is a competent pulp adventure jazzed up for jaded boys and girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fish and Foul Play | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

...Charles, the better for the endowment fund. So when Andrew Craigie, a wealthy Cantabrigian, proposed building another bridge Harvard put all its influence behind the idea. It was built in 1808. Finally, in 1846, with the construction of a fourth bridge the general court put an end to this craze for bridge-building. It arranged for the purchase of all four bridges by the Commonwealth to be used by the public toll-free...

Author: By John Sedgwick, | Title: Watching the River Flow | 4/8/1976 | See Source »

Back Issues. Under O'Neill, the News has given more space to movie and theater criticism and added a humor columnist, Gerald Nachman, whose satire is so subtle that many longtime News readers take his spoofs seriously. When Nachman wrote that because of the nostalgia craze a fictional "Ye Olde Nostalgia Shoppe" had been so successful that it was reduced to selling back issues of PEOPLE magazine, dozens of fans wrote in asking for the address. Another O'Neill-era recruit is the paper's Washington bureau chief James Weighert, whom Political Chronicler Theodore H. White calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Look at the News | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...didn't mean tie and jacket?" But there are reminders that, in certain ways, more than the superficial has changed. Women, though certainly not accepted completely at Yale and Harvard, two of the bastions of male chauvinism, are not singing the song that Smith and Vassar women made their craze in the 1920s: "Was I drunk? Was he handsome? Did my mummy give me hell...

Author: By Robert L. Ullman, | Title: Clotheslines and Leather | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...would suggest that anything that can help even drug addicts and alcoholics, as TM does, is more than a craze and much more than one would have a right to expect from 40 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Nov. 3, 1975 | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

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