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...full-tank syndrome is bringing out the worst in both buyers and sellers of that volatile fluid. When a motorist in Pittsburgh topped off his tank with only 110 worth and then tried to pay for it with a credit card, the pump attendant spat in his face. A driver in Bethel, Conn., and another in Neptune, N.J., last week escaped serious injury when their cars were demolished by passenger trains as they sat stubbornly in lines that stretched across railroad tracks. "These people are like animals foraging for food," says Don Jacobson, who runs an Amoco station in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHORTAGES: Gas Fever: Happiness Is a Full Tank | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

...OUGHT TO BE WITH ME, Al Green. Ten in January. Green is a magician of sound, a brilliantly original songwriter and vocalist. His songs are fluid rather than traditionally structured; the 1972 hit, "Still in Love with You," was his best...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Plums and Prunes | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

Picking up a pointer, Bolt explained a large chart that presented the panel's findings in graphic form. A principal technique used in arriving at their conclusions, he noted, was to develop the tape "in a sense that you develop a picture." A fluid containing magnetically sensitized particles was rubbed over the tape. The particles arranged themselves in conformity to magnetic imprints previously induced on the tape by electronic signals in the original recording and erasing processes. Thus the imprints could be seen with the naked eye and photographed. Bolt also noted that the signals had been analyzed by oscilloscope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CRISIS: A Telltale Tape Deepens Nixon's Dilemma | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...infant history of female role models, she lacks secure self-definition. "Femininity," she finds, cripples the personality, yet in rebelling against it, she has no other solid focus. Unlike the language of the male world, orbiting so neatly in its Ptolemaic course, her own vocabulary is still formative, fluid. How easy then, when so unsure inside, to locate in analysis a surer foothold upon self-understanding. And how uncertain. It's a slippery problem. It means, finally, separating the human needs from the needs of the sex role. It means grappling with the female sensibility--whatever that...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Love and Loathing | 1/16/1974 | See Source »

McGuane's prose is precisely crafted and exact, reflecting the high degree of articulation Skelton demands of himself. But it is also extremely fluid, lyrically delineating Skelton's consciousness...

Author: By Martha Stewart, | Title: Fish Comes to Shove | 11/13/1973 | See Source »

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