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...data into and out of the machines-from competitors offering prices up to 15% below IBM's. But unbundling illuminated the disparity. By year's end, the scrappy independents had grabbed an estimated 15% of the computer industry's prime growth market in such periperals as disk and tape drives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Growth Industry Grows Up | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...wide range of artistic interests. His most recent concern has been the relationship between poetry, space, and movement. He recently inscribed a poem on four cardboard disks, so that by moving each disk he could give the poem a different meaning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mexican Poet Is Next Year's Norton Lecturer | 2/17/1971 | See Source »

Anil Kapur, number four man for the Penn squash team, ruptured a disk in tournament play and will be out for the rest of the season. Kapur had been one of the most successful Quakers in the past two years...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Penn Hotshot Is Sidelined | 2/12/1971 | See Source »

...angle to match the orthodoxy of the times. The isolated exemplar was William Blake: in 1810, in Vision of the Last Judgment, angels danced on his retina: " 'What,' it will be Question'd, 'When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat like a Guinea?' O no, no, I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying 'Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Glory of the Lord Shone Round About Them | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

...into the big, clean American sound of WUSA, the sound of a decent generation." The disk jockey is a drunken, apolitical animal named Rheinhardt (Paul Newman), whose job is to plug crypto-fascism for good ole WUSA, a right-wing New Orleans radio station. By night he delivers his spiel under the heel of the station's jackboot-minded owner (Pat Hingle). By day he wallows in booze and self-pity ("I had it made and I woke up one morning, I looked down and fell off my life") in the arms of his pathetic paramour, a hooker named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Try Western Union | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

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