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...ejected into the earth's atmosphere, descending by parachute toward a point in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii, where they are snatched from the air by a giant Y-shaped sky hook bolted to the nose of an Air Force cargo plane. If that fails, the cannisters float on or just under the surface of the Pacific, giving off radio and sonar signals, and are recovered by frogmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Motto Is: Think Big, Think Dirty | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

Travolta plays Tony Manero, king of the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn disco scene. From the opening shot, a sweeping glance of Bay Ridge streets complete with pizzerias, neighborhood stores and the F train rumbling overhead, we know Tony is in control of his environment. In the background float the strains of "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees, who wrote and performed the movie's score. Tony works in a paint store, a job that proves singularly unpromising. But he really lives for Saturday night, when he and his friends hit the 2001: Odyssey discotheque...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Only a Slight 'Fever' | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...being bound together with reeds by explorer Thor Heyerdahl, who plans to float them down the Charles River to corroborate the theory that ancient Law School graduates migrated by sea to populate Wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1977 What's Your... ...'News I.Q.'? | 1/4/1978 | See Source »

Like Pinga, Loughlin and Shapiro, entrepreneurs, executives and local officials throughout the land are bewildered and outraged by the growing number of federal rules and regulations. They seem to float out from Washington as casually as children blow soap bubbles, and all too often contain about as much substance. No one can possibly keep up with all the pronouncements affecting him and his business or profession, and many people have given up trying. Each national Administration has promised to cut the paper burden, only to end up adding to it. The Commission on Federal Paperwork, created in 1974 to figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rage over Rising Regulation | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...grandee and his wife, known as the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro, initially appear two dimensional but that's because they float across stage on a gondola bearing a resemblance of sorts to Washington Crossing the Delaware. But nothing is flat about David S. Brown's and Diane Nabatoff's performances. Nabatoff manages to look both pinched and bombastic simultaneously. Uppercrustedly on the bourgeois make, Brown has the perfect Hogarthian face for the role: his oblivious facial reactions to his own spectacular antics make him all the funnier. With Brown as the Duke of Plaza-Toro...

Author: By Chris Healey, | Title: Blinded Venetians | 12/8/1977 | See Source »

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