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...just Cecil B. parting the Red Sea anymore--there's television's stamina to beat now--blatant images in a box day after day, 24-hour love, hate, anger and pain in a thousand ways. So you give the audience a strange brain (a devil-possessor)--lobotomize 'em. Or you carry them to a strange environment (perhaps trash the one you've got and see how they run)--show 'em anything can happen. This insertion of the berserk is perceived as brutal realism...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Sure Playing a Mean Pinball | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...leaving Columbia Pictures with a bill of some $35,000 for food, flowers and guards. The whole spectacle was unsettling to Tommy Composer and Who Guitarist Pete Townshend, who stood by a turnstile surveying his new underground following. Said he apprehensively: "I just hope none of 'em turn up at any Who concerts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Bosh | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...head. Normally speaking, I go with the team that's had the experience, the players that believe they belong there, you know, the ones with the winning habit. So, I'll go with UCLA. Winning championships is an attitude, you know. When you're in the habit of taking 'em, you get that attitude, believe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: View From the Attic | 3/28/1975 | See Source »

...comparable to Friedman's is only slightly less rare. Those characteristics immediately distinguished Friedman from the general run of country artists, and his first album raised him a notch higher still. Sold American was a unique montage, mixing outrageous humorous songs with serious, sensitive ballads, plus a number. "Ride 'Em Jewboy," that despite its flippant title is a moving statement of Jewish identity...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: Kinky Country | 3/22/1975 | See Source »

...office for as long as he likes, but will probably be able to pick his successor when he does decide to go. Meany's most likely choice is Lane Kirkland, 52, now the AFL-CIO'S secretary-treasurer. Although Kirkland is not "a man to set 'em on fire," in the words of one union official, he is respected as an able, knowledgeable and tough-minded leader. He is also something of a diplomat. Kirkland keeps telling people that he will probably be retiring from the AFL-CIO before George does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Labor's Grand Old Godfather | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

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