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...know when you bend over I see every bit of Christmas, and when you bend back I'm looking right into the new year."). On "Soul Man" Cropper delivers the same great riff he's been playing for years, and fellow MG Duck Dunn's bass line is downright thunderous. " 'B' Movie Box Car Blues" and "Flip, Flop & Fly" are fine, though not up to the standards set by the album's other tracks...

Author: By Marc E. Raven, | Title: The Blues for Sure | 1/4/1979 | See Source »

...there's much to see in this place." But beneath the brashness and the bravado there seemed to be a nice kid struggling to get out. There still does. At Montego Bay last week, fans interrupted McEnroe regularly off court to get his autograph and his response was often downright embarrassment. He rarely said thank you to those who congratulated him, not because he is insensitive but because he is shy and still does not know how to handle fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: His Own Worst Enemy | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

Moment by Moment is an awful movie, but it may some day occupy a hallowed place in the pantheon of high camp. This isn't your everyday Hollywood boo-boo; the film is downright perverse. For a couple of hours, two of the screen's best actors, John Travolta and Lily Tomlin, walk around overdecorated rooms and whisper sweet nothings to each other. They have sex in a Jacuzzi full of bubble bath. They build sand castles on a Malibu beach. They fondle cute dogs. They say things like: "I don't even know what the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winter Camp | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

Shopping is not as much fun as it used to be. During peak buying seasons like the monthlong countdown to Christmas that begins every year after Thanksgiving, it can be downright agony for some people. Parking is a pain, stores are crowded, and sales clerks are often inexperienced or hard to find. One result has been a burst of new activity in an old idea: mail order. Not since Chicago Merchant Aaron Montgomery Ward put out his first "catalogue"-a one-page number flogging bed ticking, hoop skirts and $8 ladies' watches-almost a century ago has there been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Is the Store Becoming Obsolete? | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...turn, the Russian news agency Tass lashed out at the U.S. after CIA Director Stansfield Turner remarked that though events in Iran stemmed from "genuine dissent," he was "sure there is some Soviet influence" at work in the country. Retorted Tass: "A downright lie. It is the U.S. that has inundated Iran with military experts, advisers and consultants, whose subversive activities were until recently guided by [Richard] Helms, one of Turner's predecessors in the post of CIA director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Shah's Fight for Survival | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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