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...something larger than that: A Mick Jagger-like figure with an equal part of Maharaji Ji and Keith Richard's bad teeth thrown in, he somehow got elevated into a spiritual godhead, an Oudpensky for our times. But somebody jumped the stakes on old Chet, and marked the deck--his final performance began with him crawling out of the rectum of a dead elephant to conduct a swordfight with a pitching machine, and ended with him throwing up on the mayor of New York. It was time to go home...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: The Caribbean Syndicalist Novel | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

...also like a Mercedes Benz with air conditioning and a tape deck...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Just Once I'd Like to See... | 11/4/1978 | See Source »

Johnson runs through a few of his vocals, flipping on his deck which plays--among sax and acoustic and electric guitars and bass--a mechanical percussion line. "Radiator," he says airily into the mike...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Rock 'n Roll Sometimes Forgets | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

When the Lindblad Explorer entered the harbor of Shanghai at daybreak, three passengers had special reason to stand on the observation deck to command a full view of the city. Senior Writer Michael Demarest, who wrote this week's special report on the People's Republic, was making his first trip to China. The sight, he recalls, was wondrous and unexpected, with "freighters, tankers, junks and sampans set against that immortal skyline." Photographer Carl Mydans and Shelley, his novelist wife, were also thrilled by the panorama, but much of it was familiar to them. As one of LIFE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 23, 1978 | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

During a pitching, drunken revel aboard Pompey's ship, an infantry officer watches the rulers of the ancient world reeling around the deck and yearns that the earth were "on wheels." That is very nearly what Director Peter Brook has achieved in his whirling, boisterous version of Shakespeare's long, intractable tragedy, which opened last week in Stratford-upon-Avon. The play is not very often produced: exclusive of intermission, it runs 3% hours and with 42 scenes is as sprawling as a map of the Roman Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Putting the Earth on Wheels | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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