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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps some of you will understand Buckminster Fuller's lead article, "Mistake Mystique," but it mystified me. Phrases like "omni-accommodative generalized principles" or "the progressive complex of cosmic episodes of scenario universe" throw me into the same haze as pretentious science-fiction. When, after the geodesic rhetoric, we're told of synergetics and the positive value of mistakes, you may feel like adding the Robert Louis Stevenson-ism: "the world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we all should be as happy as kings...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Checkout Counter Spiritualism | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

...focusing on him. No real overriding social commentary can be gleaned from Welcome to L.A. that compares with the heavy-handed moralism of Altman's Nashville vision. Instead, the state of the American psyche is Rudolph's primary preoccupation. He dubbed the genre of Welcome to L.A. "emotional science-fiction--it shows what will happen if we don't watch out." And his own words capture the essence of the theme well: "Romance ain't dead, it's just gone crazy...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Grown-Up Wasteland | 4/19/1977 | See Source »

...FICTION 1 -Oliver' s Story, Segal (3 last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...Camarillo, Spanish-born Fashion Designer Fernando Sanchez, Miami Newscaster Emilio Milian, who continues to speak out against Cuban terrorists despite a bomb attack that blew off both his legs, and Archbishop Roberto Sanchez of Santa Fe, N.M., the highest-ranking Latino prelate in the U.S. Regular features include fiction or poetry, a gallery of art or photography, a food and crafts column, and a cross-the-country regional news report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Voice for Latinos | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...have been harassed, that ultimately none of the charges against Davis or Jackson's Soledad co-defendants could be made to stick - these are valid points. Brothers renders them in valid only by exploiting their quasi-factual basis while changing all the names and parading the case as fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Recycling Job | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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