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But Les Sauvages does not make its appeal through great performances or witty dialogue or stylish cinematography. It simply offers an exotic retreat from stifling sun-baked, urbanism. It suggests a beautiful escape to days filled with tomato eating and sea-green swimming; to a place where exotic flowers can...

Author: By Joellen Wlodkowski, | Title: Screwballing Amidst the Mango Trees | 7/19/1977 | See Source »

Originally a simple mix of ranchers and stucco dwellers California society had become an exotic mélange riddled with hippies, surfers and executive dropouts. Out of this sprang a mutant pop culture. "Do your own thing" was the golden rule; ambivalence was its only sin. Mid-life divorce, recreational...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: What Ever Happened to California? | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

CENTRAL FLORIDA. Disney World at Orlando is, of course, the magnet. An hour's drive away, at Tampa, is Busch Gardens' Dark Continent, which features not only exotic African beasts on a Serengeti-esque plain but also such other threatened species as snake charmers and belly dancers. Tampa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes Summer: Pop Xanadus of Fun and Fantasy | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

Bracelets and Diets. Contrary to popular notions, arthritis-which afflicts millions of Americans-is not a single disease, but a collection of ailments characterized by a common irritation of the joints. In the case of rheumatoid arthritis, some doctors suspect malfunctions of the immune system, perhaps triggered by viruses. Indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Diagnosing Lyme's Malady | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

The setting is purportedly Chicago, though all of Brecht's locales are exercises in exotic fantasy. The action is centered in Bill Cracker's gin mill. Bill (Christopher Lloyd) is very tough but no match for the Lady in Gray, otherwise known as "the Fly" (Grayson Hall). She...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Salvation in a Gin Mill | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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