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...some observers it all seems risky. One is former Inuvik Mayor Jim Robertson, who predicts a flood of tourists. Says he plaintively: "We'll be the biggest used-car lot in the world. Every fool in an air-conditioned Cadillac will want to drive here, and one way will be enough. They won't go back over that road. They'll dump their cars here and fly home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Two Throughways to the Arctic | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

Some of those musical riffs can be isolated as gestures, and Wylie teaches them all, many from his 1977 book Beaux Gestes. Pointing to the eye means "You can't fool me," and flicking the fingers across the cheek says "How dull," because the words for beard and razor (barbe, rasoir) have meant "boring" for more than a century. Pushing the nose upward means "It's so easy I could do it with my fingers up my nose." Drawing the tips of the fingers together and placing them in the palm of the other hand means "He's so lazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Does Your Body Parle Fran | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...SYMBOLS themselves are meaningless, like words without perceptions. And to cling to any symbol--whether to be mindlessly patriotic or trendgoing punk--is decadent. And this is where the angst either emerges, or turns the knife inward. This is where confused fools lose themselves in their symbols and overdose, and it is where artists use their symbols, change them, flex them, adapt them, to express their angst. It's facing reality: Iggy Pop is a fool, Sid Vicious is dead, Johnny Rotten is dying, and Patti Smith is fucking with the future.*CrimsonLaura J. Levine...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Street Symbolist Finds Her Ark | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

...damn fool enough to think I know anything about the Middle East." Thus, with a typically guileful display of candor, Robert S. Strauss, 60, assessed his qualifications for the diplomatic assignment passed on to him last week by Jimmy Carter: to be the nation's superambassador for the second stage of Middle East peace negotiations, which begin in 3½ weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Texas Envoy | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...some songs that work. Relative to pop music's more recent trends, Zappa recently observed, "Disco music makes it possible for mellow, laid-back, boring kinds of people to meet each other and reproduce." Marshalling his talents to forge a particularly scathing attack on disco, Frank wrote "Dancin' Fool," which is due to be spun at Boston-Boston any night now. In this song, some lame guy decides he'd rather be a fool and get laughed at than not dance at all. "I got it all together man / With my very own disco clothes,hey! / My shirts half open...

Author: By Peter Sanborn, | Title: Brain Police and Mental Floss | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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