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...Hustle, which has made the national charts for an extraordinary 18 weeks. Other popular Hustle records include Loggins & Messina's Pathway to Glory, Consumer Rapport's Ease On Down the Road (from the Broadway musical The Wiz), Herbie Mann's Hijack and Ester Phillips' What a Difference a Day Makes. None, however, quite matches Me Coy's hit. "Do it," exhorts the record. "Do the Hustle." And they do, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Together Again | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...been used to: unlike the descriptive approaches of a Forman or a Menzel, Report is a highly stylized film, philosophically abstract and frankly allegorical. Nemec's earlier work, such as Diamonds of the Night , lacked these elements, so much of the credit for Report must lie with co-scenarist Ester Krumbachova, who also collaborated with Nemec on The Martyrs of Love and with Vera Chytilova on the brilliant Daisies...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The Moviegoer The Weekend's Movies | 3/21/1970 | See Source »

...descriptive approach to reality, attempting to cast social themes in individualized dimensions (Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel). But a few filmmakers have made a radical break with previous Czech film, abandoning descriptive conventions for vivid stylization and a strong strain of philosophical abstraction. Chief among these are the art designer Ester Krumbachova and directors Jan Nemec and Ver Chytilova; Nemec's Report in the Party and the Guests and Chytilova's Daisies are its best representatives...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: Daisies | 7/15/1969 | See Source »

...Germans were also slow in identifying the offending poison. Though nearly 50 German laboratories were reportedly making tests, it was the Dutch who first isolated the killer. The substance, they said, was a bug-paralyzing insecticide called endosulvan and marketed as Thiodan. A sulfurous acid ester, endosulvan is described by its manufacturers, the Hochst chemical works just west of Frankfurt, as harmless to warm-blooded animals, including humans, even though one microgram (less than one three-millionth of an ounce) in a quart of water is enough to kill coldblooded fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Rancid Rhine | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...Cristina Diligenti was in Rome, where she works as a secretary. Carlos and Franco, students in British Columbia, put in a full day's work (though their father is a millionaire industrialist) at their summer jobs as $3.19-an-hour Vancouver longshoremen. Back home in Buenos Aires, Marfa Ester and Maria Fernanda are both married, and have three children, two girls and a boy, between them. But all five sent happy birthday besos and abrazos to one another and their proud parents by telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 24, 1964 | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

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