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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...album, particularly As I Went Out One Morning and The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, songs about false searches. Isis begins with the narrator leaving Isis, the Egyptian goddess of perfect wife and motherhood for reasons left obscure. He goes through a ritual of cutting off his hair and washing his clothes and meets a man who promises him easy wealth. They travel to a country of "pyramids embedded in ice" and the narrator discovers that his companion is a grave-robber. His imagination is inflamed--he has visions of turquoise, gold, and diamonds. But the companion dies...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: To the Valley Below | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Your back is straight, your hair is smooth...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: To the Valley Below | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...plaid hat at the U.N. last July, Moynihan has become one of the most jarring diplomats ever to inhabit the towering glass menagerie on Manhattan's East Side. A big (6 ft. 5 in.), bouncy, exuberant man with a cherubic Irish face and a floppy lock of prematurely gray hair, Moynihan, 48, has a well-developed ability to both charm and infuriate. Walking down a corridor, he can pick up a retinue with a nonstop monologue of patter, pontification and wisecracks ("If the U.N. didn't exist, it would be impossible to invent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: A FIGHTING IRISHMAN AT THE U.N. | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...that is not afraid of understatement. His debut, the start of a 15-concert tour of nine states, occurred in a walled-off end of Millett Hall, the Miami U. sports arena-which had surprisingly good acoustics. A burly bear with stooped shoulders, ginger-colored beard and long brown hair that waves up at the neck, Berman came out looking grim and tense. Once he was at the keyboard, all illusions of nerves or cumbersomeness vanished. He sits squarely at the piano, his eyes fixed on the keys, making no theatrical gestures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Russian Fireworks | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

Delilah did not cut Samson's hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Antidote to Factoids | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

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