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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Follies Flap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 24, 1971 | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

...showfolk talk about their operations on the Johnny Carson Show. British Actress Sarah Miles, however, didn't mind telling 7,200,000 viewers: "I had an ear job." Her ears, she said, "not only stuck out, but they had no shape at all. They used to flap in the wind." Miss Miles' now unflappable ears have given her considerable self-confidence. Asked whom she would choose to be alone with for six months, she said: "Hitler. If I had six months, I might be able to corrupt him into something of goodness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 17, 1971 | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

...years in Las Trampas two logs from hill to hollowed to carry water one inside other half with icicles-very small as compliment to overlap and gravity-hanging below complete skull of a stag on a pole small birds flying so vilently they change direction with each flap of the wing eagles yes eagles, details digression

Author: By Michael Hentges, | Title: From a Journal of a Past Year | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

...irony avoided until once, coming down a mountain on a dirt road, saw a raven flying its own distance down with a small stream. When the water passed under the road, however, the bird faltered the air, and for that fraction of time made a tragic decision-one flap of the wings that shadowed across the car, a short glide to curve with the road down the mountain soon beyond us. Somehow, the bird following our road showed a sense of freedom from it. But what have our roads done to these creatures with their won, magical, geometrics? What...

Author: By Michael Hentges, | Title: From a Journal of a Past Year | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

...cube." Two of the four shelves inside the cube can form a seat while the others fasten into the moldings to form a desk or table. Later, a bed can be made of a pair of shelves-the sleeper's feet extend through a side-window flap. Another variation: a student can open a roof flap, stick head and shoulders out and use the roof as a desk. Cost of an Isaacs cube: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The New Room: No Furniture | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

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