Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME'S glance at the Sex Pistols [Jan. 16] only serves to illustrate the growing feeling among those who enjoy good rock that modern music is taking a fast dive into the garbage can. Not only is Beethoven rolling over; he may walk out of his grave and give Johnny Rotten and his compatriots a deserved punch in the nose...
...predicting that the nation's most productive wells, notably the huge Samotlor field and those along the Urals (see map), would soon be drying up. Thus, concluded the CIA, the Soviets will become net importers of oil by the mid-1980s. Reason: they are pumping too much too fast and do not possess the technology needed to bring in new wells in the forbidding climes of the Arctic Circle and Bering Sea. Says Energy Secretary James Schlesinger: "If anything, the CIA report was optimistic...
...shown remarkable skill and endurance in their present Siberian ventures. They have learned how to insulate rigs against the treacherous thawing tundra and to use aluminum drilling shafts that can be sunk deeper than heavier steel ones. They have developed turbo-drills that, they claim, bore three times as fast as conventional U.S. ones. But despite wages two to three times as high as the national average of $215 a month, workers desert the frozen Siberian expanses in droves...
...Wednesday is a movable fast, and in 1978 it arrives early, on Feb. 8. So Münchner decided to extend the saturnalia into Lent. Churchmen were outraged. The office of the Archbishop of Munich protested that while the church appreciated "the joy of living" expressed in Fasching, it considered the prolongation "totally objectionable." Fumed one priest: "Ash Wednesday is a religious symbol that needs to be preserved even if it hurts business." So much for symbolism. Munich's Fasching organizers canceled masquerades after Ash Wednesday. But other balls and celebrations will go on until March 5, just three...
Before travelling to New York for rehearsals of Deathtrap, Moore "knocked off a few TV pilots. You work fast in television, and I like the improvisational atmosphere. It's very much like summer stock where you do a new show every six days. If the pilots work out, it can develop into something very comfortable. I directed the first 30 episodes of Rhoda, for example...