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...Listen, man, I got this really far-out project called Brewster McCloud, right? It was written, if you can dig it, by the guy who wrote Skidoo. [There are cries of "Oh my God" from elsewhere on the bench.] Just cool it a minute. It's a really weird little number, man. I mean, it's like about this guy who lives in the basement of the Houston Astrodome and builds a pair of wings cause he wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ars Gratia Guano | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...fags, man. No fags. Just weirdness. And dig: I got Bob Altman to direct it. You dug M*A*S*H, right? This'll really blow your mind. And Lou Adler to produce it, man, he did all those old records with The Mamas and The Papas. It shapes up very groovy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ars Gratia Guano | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...patented the modern oil-drill bit−a device with 166 cutting edges−and rented it for $30,000 a well, or dry hole. The bit is still the base of the Hughes fortune. "We don't have a monopoly," Hughes once remarked. "Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shootout at the Hughes Corral | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...Scoutmasters -mostly young Viet Nam veterans-do instruct them in camping and field survival. This month the troop will journey to Camp Alpine, N.J., to hike, camp and cook out. But it is still the allure of survival in the city that seems most attractive to the Stoners. "I dig the Stoners because they teach us how to live in the city," says Ricardo Reed, 14. "They teach us how to treat rat bites and stuff like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: Digging the Stoners | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...graveyard with no sign of life," an official reported after flying over Hatia Island. At one village, when a newsman asked why hundreds of bodies had been left unburied, a man cried: "We have buried 5,000 in mass graves. Our hands are aching. We can't dig any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Pakistan: When The Demon Struck | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

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