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The frenetic Charlestoning, the drugs, the sex and the compulsive travelling of the '20s may have been described at great length in the more reputable words of the time. Nevertheless, today, there persists a nostalgia for the glitter and naivete of the decade before the Great Crash that is soon...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Sherry and Schopenhauer | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

Water. Shapeless in itself, it can take MI multitudinous shapes. Colorless in itself, it can produce iridescences beyond any artist's palette. Soundless and inert in itself, it can in action induce a sense of rushing speed and frenetic energy; in tranquillity, a sense of meditative peace. In the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Shaping Water into Art | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

The high point of two frenetic days of travel, though, was Carter's stopover in Charleston. The spectacle of thousands of people turning out in 100° temperatures to cheer the presidential motorcade as it wound through Charleston's narrow myrtle-scented streets evoked familiar campaign memories, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Jimmy, the Bible | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

So muses one Saudi Arabian businessman about his country's frenetic pace of development. His comments point to a paradox of swiftly growing importance for the world economy. By many of the standard measures of power, Saudi Arabia should be a weak state. Its population is sparse: only 7.5...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: Saudi Arabia's Growing Petropower | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

Banned in Iran. Anyone who has read a newspaper in the past three years will recognize real-world dilemmas: a politically volatile Middle East, with Saudi Arabia and Iran at loggerheads over oil prices; New York's banks hungering for Arab oil revenues to fend off a looming liquidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPHECIES: Doom for Fun and Profit | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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