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Bloody Marys for breakfast, screwdrivers for lunch, more drinks in the afternoon, leave the hotel at 6, makeup at 8, interview, onstage at 10, hamburgers at a diner, second show at 1, drive home at 3, early-morning party, pass out. A rock artist lives like a modern marathon dancer. Janis craved every bit of the action: "Hey, man, what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Alone with the Blues | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...takes place over there, as well as the horseback-riding and country club affairs. Otherwise, there's no culture except for what the high schools give out, and the only social hang-outs which are well-attended are the swingers bars for adults and the shopping malls and diner parking lots for kids. It's living death, all right, except for the diners. If, as is possible, everyone in Cherry Hill flushed their toilets at once, and it sank into the Delaware (the escalating sewage routes have not been clearly tracked down), few people without family ties would mourn...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Suburban Apples and Neon | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...intriguing works of German Expressionism. Special effects within a natural setting create a macabre atmosphere unmatched by the remakes but Max Schreek, as the vampire, doesn't approach Bela Lugosi, Petrified Forest. Robert Sherwood's broadway hit about innocent people held captive by a futhless gang at a desert diner was transferred to the screen with little visual imagination, but retained its fine performances by idealist Leslie Howard, romantic Bette Davis, and killer Humphrey Bogart in his first major role, 1936. Key Largo, Maxwell Anderson's mediocre play about innocent people held captive by a ruthless gang at a Florida...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 1/26/1973 | See Source »

...convention in infinite detail-even to an uncharacteristically droll bit by Robert Semple on the confrontation between a Secret Service bent on X-raying delegates' boxes of fried chicken for possible bombs and a Department of Public Health fearful that X rays would damage both dinner and diner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Media Mob | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

...have never used canned fruit and the supposedly expert taste that detected canned and the supposedly discriminating eye that saw the banana was wrong again. We don't put bananas, canned or otherwise, in our fresh fruit. Perhaps there is not a great deal of difference to the casual diner between fresh fruit and canned fruit (although we think there is), but one expects more from a "restaurant reviewer" doesn't one? And I do think it is grossly unfair to your readers to have a review about food written by someone who can't even recognize a pickle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LADY THAT'S NO BANANA... | 7/14/1972 | See Source »

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