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Although he is a connoisseur of Mediterranean islands, Durrell sometimes seems to be laboring as hard as his red tour bus grinding up the mountain switchbacks. The reader must listen to Roberto, a wise and tactful Sicilian guide, discoursing on the first-aid kit aboard the bus; there is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bus Stops | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

The state rushed into the '70s without breaking stride. Its gross product was larger than all but five countries; were California an independent nation, its per capita income would have been the world's highest. Yet, statistics aside, something was wrong. Michael Davie noticed the change in his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: What Ever Happened to California? | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

Ye gods, the thoughtful, thirtyish ex-Beatles freak may well ask, what is happening to the younger generation? In Tokyo, Chicago and Paris, kids are bumping, grinding, loving, hating, wailing to the loud, raucous, often brutal sounds of punk rock. For a year or so, punk has been flourishing in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Anthems of the Blank Generation | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

Grinding bones rest in peace?

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: In the Shadow of the Shah | 7/6/1977 | See Source »

Then you look up and you see there's a man's arm sticking out of the end of the grinder, with the hand gripped sweatily around the handle turning away for dear life, or death. The hand is turning and the grinder is grinding and somewhere in between there...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: 'Most determined case of suicide I've ever seen' | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

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