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...that mix mass appeal with artistic merit, and that is probably true. As you watch it, you should be mildly offended that NBC paid Paramount $10 million to show it one time, and that NBC in turn charged advertisers about $200,000 for one minute of air time. Fuck 'em by turning off the set during the ads. Ch. 4, 9 p.m. Color, 2 hours. (Conclusion Monday...

Author: By F. Briney, | Title: TELEVISION | 11/14/1974 | See Source »

...courage in remaining fiercely independent is striking. He was something of a pariah in his community because of his belligerent attitudes towards whites and his insistence on retelling the stories of his many rebellions. "They'd give you a good name if you was obedient to 'em, acted nice when you met 'em and didn't question 'em about what they said they had against you," Shaw says of white people at the end of the book. "You begin to cry about your rights and the mistreatin' of you and they'd murder...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: A Genius Behind The Plow | 11/13/1974 | See Source »

...later. This was the one time in the two-year period when it made sense to have me totally out of action for one week. The mining started on a Sunday, May 7, the anniversary of the fall of Dienbienphu, when the headlines in the New York Times--look 'em up--were "Nobody knows what he will do." I was at a press conference in Chicago; I said, "I am sorry to say that I do know what he is going to do. The NSC at this moment is meeting to ratify the mining of Haiphong which is probably underway...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: Haiphong, Kissinger, and William Colby | 11/12/1974 | See Source »

...Em Burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: How to Avoid Courtroom Tilt | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...over an acre or two. By last week about 3,500 acres had been charred. Is the National Park Service concerned? Not really: its new policy -first tested in California in 1968 and now in effect in many of the U.S.'s heavily forested parks-is "Let 'em burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Let'Em Burn | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

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