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Jogging is a very '70s pursuit, and Hausman's goons have to shoo away armies of gum-soled fitness freaks whenever they get in Hair's way. Most are gracious, and one even pitches in to help tether a 40-ft. red phallic balloon for the crew. But a thirtyish intruder does not take it well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Manhattan: Reliving the '60s | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...Stones become part of history and Springsteen becomes reminiscent of our high school years, groups like Steely Dan and Electric Light Orchestra have attempted to inject some creativity into rock style. In the process, ELO turned into bubble-gum celluloid some time ago, and Steely Dan drifted into the realm of jazz (or rock-jazz, as some like...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Up From the Streets | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

Unlike picking the nose or chewing gum or other disgusting quirks that one can merely ignore, smokers literally force others present to participate, whether they like it or not. The visible detritus of smokers, the world's rudest people, is also noxious, since they consider the world their ashtray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1978 | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...deal, I though. That was the year the Red Sox dropped their first ten games and Jose Santiago was launched into that nameless baseball obscurity, on the fringe of memory, tossed in the stacks of bubble gum card limbo with Pumpsy Green and Jose Tartibull. Only a die-hard, hungry Boston carnivore like me, a Red Sox fan since childhood, would remember these names--these extinguished hopes of the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of Pennant Fever | 4/14/1978 | See Source »

...course, intellectually employed at home. It doesn't matter that I could spend my time catching up on reading I will have to do when I return to Harvard. When at home, relax. My search for mental bubble gum begins with television, a narcotic I deny myself while at school. I am an old movie fanatic. After 11:30 p.m., the television ether ripples with old, older and oldest movies. A good evening at home starts with a rapid scan of the good old New York Times T.V. section for cinematic gems and ends in the wee hours while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Springtime in Suburbia | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

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