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...hanging around and what the fuck do you do? And what can you do? In all seriousness, come down my neighborhood, what can you do? There's a gym. How many times a week can you play basketball before it becomes ridiculously boring? The high school's a dive, it's a serious joke, you don't learn shit. Your parents are basically working class, are basically going to work, coming home, going to sleep. They're happy that they're clothing you and feeding you. They don't take you down to the amusement park...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Even Punks Sing the Blues | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

...most of us aren't doctors, and our tolerance for this sort of thing is low. Why should a director bother to compose a frame so that it's charged with subliminal tension when he can just shove a fresh, juicy kidney into the camera and the audience will dive out of its seats? If you're going to hit an audience over the head, fine--John Frankenheimer can do it with wit and style; in a film like Black Sunday the camera never stops moving and leaves the audience breathless with excitement. But in Coma the camerawork is smooth...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Organs Aweigh | 2/22/1978 | See Source »

Bears Take a Dive...

Author: By Susan H. Goldstein, | Title: Harvard Submerges Aquamen of Maine | 2/18/1978 | See Source »

TIME'S glance at the Sex Pistols [Jan. 16] only serves to illustrate the growing feeling among those who enjoy good rock that modern music is taking a fast dive into the garbage can. Not only is Beethoven rolling over; he may walk out of his grave and give Johnny Rotten and his compatriots a deserved punch in the nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1978 | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...fined for making illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's re-election campaign. Now the political wind has shifted from San Clemente to the South-and Braniff has influence there too. Virtually the entire Texas congressional delegation lobbied Carter. Says one airline lawyer: "They hit the White House like dive bombers from the Confederate air force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Playing Politics with Airlines | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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