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...Sellars plays Hermia's lover Lysander well, but is handicapped by his boyish cuteness. Sellars looks too much the blonde California surfer. He delivers his lines with feeling, but we can't help thinking that if Hermia threw him over, he'd just as soon hop into his dune buggy and cruise down the beach until he found a new place where the kids...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Some Enchanted Evening | 4/20/1977 | See Source »

...endless variations of electronic games should soar. The station wagon, the Patton tank of suburbia, may be replaced by smaller cars. The automakers expect to sell more of the handy vans that are already a part of the youth culture as well as more recreational vehicles: motor homes, campers, dune buggies, Jeeps, motorcycles and mopeds. Education may finally get better, as the teacher-student ratio improves. Says Economist Alan Sweezy of the California Institute of Technology: "I think ZPG is going to be a very good thing for higher education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Looking to the ZPGeneration | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...listings Rupert told me to toss your way: Tonight at 8 you got John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys and Old Number 7 at the Rexicana Ballroom on Route 139 in Marshfield. To get to where the good ol' tunes are, you got to rev up the dune buggy, sport. (Tie your Kangaroo down first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROCK | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...West Pointer who finds a commission in the French Foreign Legion and trouble in the Sahara between archaeologists and Arabs. Hackman grumbles: "A whole generation has grown up without ever seeing a Foreign Legion film. Today kids think the only thing on the other side of a sand dune is an oil well." His new role as a French connection, desert style, will surely set them straight. Says Hackman: "I'm a cross between George Patton and Charles de Gaulle with sand in his pommes frites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 1, 1976 | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

...Neil overcame that affliction and moved on to her next sports: motorcycle and car racing. A total speed freak, she has raced bikes, sports cars, dragsters and dune buggies. While revving up her motorcycle engine at a rally one day, she met Stunt Man Duffy Hambleton, 39. Marriage followed, and O'Neil became a housewife. But not for long. She soon got bored staying home, and in 1974 O'Neil began a rigorous two-year training program under Hambleton to become a stunt woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Fall Girl | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

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