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...newest hot ticket on Broadway these days?$55 a pair from scalpers ?is an admission to a haunted house. Elegiac strains of the '20s, '30s and '40s hover in the wings. Ectoplasmic chorines, all beads and feather boas, wander across the stage like Ziegfeld girls come back to life. Characters are at once 19 and 49. Time bounces off the walls, like sound and light brilliantly altered and distorted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Once and Future Follies | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...over his head working a hand eggbeater, Beefheart kicking over a can of white paint in slow motion, and a shot of the record cover.) The refusal was less moral, entertaining, and enlightening than any toothpaste, shaving cream, laundry detergent, hair spray or feminine deodorant spray advertisement, another distinctive feather to add to the Band's proverbial cap or something. From this album they played "Doctor Dark," and "Woc-is-uh-me-bop," and "One Red Rose That I Mean." To prove Beefheart's seriousness, here are the words to "Space-Age-Couple...

Author: By Cedric Finberg, | Title: Beefheart Mania: Do You Believe? | 3/19/1971 | See Source »

Angry Silence. Deepening the malaise is what London's newspapers call the "angry silence" between the workingman and the Tory government. Few expect this week's scheduled meeting between Heath and Trades Union Congress Leader Victor Feather to start a real dialogue. Even if the seven-week strike of the 230,000-member Union of Post Office Workers ends this week as anticipated, by the end of April the number of working days lost in British industry may exceed the total of 10,970,000 for all of last year. That would be the worst record since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Running Out of Sea Room | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

...however, is only one feather on the American Imperial Eagle. The U. S. supports the racist regime in South Africa because of that country's vast gold and uranium deposits. And the story of United Fruit and Guatemala is an oft-told tale (sad but true). The list goes on, but the point should be clear...

Author: By Jeffrey L. Baker, | Title: Vietnam The Changing Liberal Calculus | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...nature, coaching is of the utmost importance. After his Princeton match Friday. Jaime Gonzalez said of his opponent, "He was a good tennis player. He had the classic swing and good shots, but he wasn't too much as a squash player. He didn't slice the ball or feather it, and he didn't surprise me with the walls." The challenge of squash is never just to return the ball but always to do something with a shot, and that is what Barnaby has worked on all year...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: A Touch of Garlic | 2/23/1971 | See Source »

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