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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skates. But this man of steel can lift 125 lbs. dead weight, bend 45° at the waist and locomote forward or backward at a top speed of 3 m.p.h. Arok can vacuum the rug, take out the trash, serve a tray of Dr. Peppers' (Skora does not drink hard liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: A Better Robot? | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Despite their nomadic ways, motor homers are intensely gregarious people. A great many belong to organizations around the country that stage rallies at which members swap tall tales of the road, expertise and quantities of food and drink (the fare runs to beef, beans and Bud). The biggest and most tightly knit group is the Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA), which boasts 31,000 dues-paying members ($25 per annum per family) in 130 chapters across the nation. To qualify for membership, a motor-home owner must have a vehicle that is at least 18 ft. long, is "self-contained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In South Dakota: The Motor Homers Gather | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...best way to approach a Victorian suspense thriller is with complete irreverence: take advantage of Theater at the Square's "dinner-theater-parking" package and the Hyatt Regency's Spinnaker Lounge for some drinks (or anywhere else you want to drink) and snucker on down to the Hasty Pudding Club, where the company is making its summer home. This effect will not only increase the drama of the drama, it will add a humorous dimension to the production. Which finally brings us out of this digression: the only touch Angel Street needs to become a better thriller...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Victorian Fun and Games | 8/1/1978 | See Source »

...about Capote. Freelance Writer Anne Taylor Fleming wrote that the publication in 1975 of a gossipy chapter about his high society friends from Capote's long overdue novel, Answered Prayers, "quite simply changed his life." The result: instead of being famous, he became infamous and took heavily to drink and pills, "a longtime habit at last grown serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 31, 1978 | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...protest was unavailing. Holmes helped himself to a drink from the gasogene. "Using nothing but logic, one can follow today's events and see deep into the next century. Of course, you have only my word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elementary | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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