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...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 »

...hockey team was so taken with the way the NCAA handled the "Star-Spangled Banner" at Syracuse that it will use the same technique next winter. All the lights are turned off, the spotlights shine on the two flags, and a special device provides wind to make the flags flap.... Watson Rink goal judges will wear Harvard blazers during next year's Cornell game, but they will not share lodging with Harvard hockey players during the school year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ben Beach Hail to Spring | 4/1/1971 | See Source »

...culture sprang more than anything else from rock-'n'-roll music. The new awareness took its energy from the shattering, obliterating volume of electrically amplified music, so awesomely loud it made pant legs flap and ears go numb for days. This volume, so enormous it was more movement than sound, amounted to a new form of violence, and when it coupled with the anarchic, brute-sexual rhythm and lyrics of rock-'n'-roll music, it produced a mass catharsis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling Of America: Out of Tune and Lost in the Counterculture | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

...that every young man was demanding a decade ago, but at the top theyare as baggy as an old man's-inelegant at both ends." Dallas admits, however, that perhaps the prince is consciously trying to "adjust to the day of the common man." A deliberately disarranged pocket flap may, he thinks, be a "secret signal that, from the top, elegance is seen to be undemocratic." However awful Charles' clothes are, concedes Cutter Dallas, he "usually avoids the depths" of Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home and President Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 8, 1971 | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...FLAP serves notice that the plight of the American Indian has reached the exploitation stage. As Flapping Eagle, a proud ex-Army sergeant on an Arizona reservation, Anthony Quinn boldly plays Zorba the drunk redskin. Abetted by a wispy intellectual with the decidedly un-militant name of Eleven Snowflake (Tony Bill) and a bleary stereotype called Lobo (Claude Akins), Flapping Eagle decides to foment a three-brave revolution against white civilization. Guess who dies (but whose spirit lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stocking Stuffers | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

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