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Well, rock fans, you needn't get in a dither about it, but Max is right-non-mobile back-beat lovers will find this a summer of pretty slim musical pickings. The best rock around this week is out in the southern hinterlands. Ray Davies and the Kinks will be playing out at the Cape Cod Coliseum on July 2. Tickets are $7.50 in advance, $8.50 the day of the show and are available at the Out of Town Newsstand in the Square. Later in the week, Fleetwood Mac will play their various chartbusters at the Providence, R.I., Civic Center...

Author: By Andy Karron, | Title: Rock | 7/1/1977 | See Source »

...fake-childish poetry. As always, slave-ship captains and plantation owners are shown as psychopathic hypocrites-consulting Scripture in one scene, condoning, even participating in violence and rape in the next. Naturally, a Simon Legree figure is always handy to do their dirty work, while highborn white ladies dither prettily in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoint: Middlebrow Mandingo | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

Since Airport 1975 is a sequel to Airport, with its patented formula-panic in the skies, dither on the ground-it is reasonable to assume that the passengers on this Columbia Airlines 747 are going to find themselves in grave peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crash Landing | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

Galbraith admits that Congress seems in something less than a dither to pass the requisite measures for a "new" socialism. Yet many encumbrances on so-called free enterprise -wage-price controls, environmental restrictions, safety regulations, etc.-seemed likely prospects until recently Galbraith points out: "Circumstance forces the action that theory deplores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crypto Servants and Socialism | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

...midst of sexual stimuli can be guessed with a minimum of imagination, which is precisely what Director-Writer Berri has brought to bear. He does manage to avoid passing quick moral judgments. In fact, he manages to avoid judgments or insights of almost any kind in his general dither to be cute. Everything in Le Sex Shop is cute: the frustrated husbands and thwarted libertines, the perversions, the jokes, the whores, even the erotic apparatus. For the viewer, the effect of all this simultaneous coyness and brashness is like getting chucked under the chin with a dildo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: French Postcard | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

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