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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are also several rock songs in the film that tend to be inferior to the best of Zappa's work. Unfortunately these numbers are accompanied by psychedelic, out-of-focus visuals of the Mothers playing. The result is boring...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: 200 Motels | 11/2/1971 | See Source »

...facility and control of gesture is still there; the wit, the Aristophanic irony, the ebullience and the capacity to fix an image remain. But he is apparently so infatuated with the spectacle of his own prodigious improvisation that, by one of the paradoxes that infest his life, he cannot focus it in any significant way. Picasso's reign over his images is such that no resistances are left-and that is his problem. Most of Picasso's variations on Velásquez's Las Meninas, Manet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Anatomy of a Minotaur | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...scum"--against the enemies of the nation. When J. Edgar Heehaw is questioned on the details of the Presidential assasination he modestly replies. "Look, as we say here at the Bureau, ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies." And to bring matters into a clearer focus, there are always those boys with the national news...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Hey kids, what time is it? It's Richard Nixon time! | 10/29/1971 | See Source »

Would a man with such control over his inner life, a long time man's feel for time, and a committed man's disdain for waste have killed John Mills? Would he have killed Mills when the real focus of vengence, O.G. Miller, was still alive in Soledad? Moreover, would the death of three more inmates have driven Jackson out of the firm balance of his reason to the irrationality of revenge...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: If We Must Die | 10/27/1971 | See Source »

Seeking better working conditions, employees at a government desalination plant in Eilat recently tried a novel approach. They stayed on the job until they were so tired that they could no longer obey orders. The sleep-in failed, but it did focus attention on a brewing crisis in Israel. There have been so many strikes and demonstrations in the past few months that Premier Golda Meir has warned: "The situation is deteriorating into a rebellion, not by the Arabs but by our own hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: A Homemade Rebellion | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

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