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It's an axiom in Cambridge that the city council resembles nothing more than an erratic circus, and rent control is its most dependable elephant. In a city with a large number of renters who are well-organized by tenant and community groups, debates over control have been the council...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: The Town Comes to Circus | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Shrieking Laughter. In the Bundestag building in Bonn, mobs of frenzied women raced through the corridors cutting off the neckties of male deputies in a symbolic castration proclaiming the traditional theme of "the day women rule." Similar scenes occurred in other government and business offices all over Bonn. In Beuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Letting Go | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

By far the most successful of the rock comics are Richard ("Cheech") Marin, 27, and Tommy Chong, 33, an energetic Chicano-Chinese duo whose freakish cast of characterizations includes Sister Mary Elephant, Ashley Roachclip, and Buster the Body Crab. Their first two albums have sold 4 million copies so far...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Man, Is That Funny? | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

Even at its best, Robin Hood is only mildly diverting. There is not a single moment of the hilarity or deep, eerie fear that the Disney people used to be able to conjure up, or of the sort of visual invention that made the early features so memorable. Robin Hood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

Sir / I just heard on the news that you have requested our President to resign. Now isn't that just great. Reminds me of the old story I heard when I was a child about the flea biting the elephant and then asking whether he had hurt it. Now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1973 | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

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