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...explanation for this disastermania: it is merely a harmless byproduct of popular entertainment. Explains Science Writer Isaac Asimov: "Hollywood just happens to be very good at special effects, primarily destructive effects." Indeed, in a forthcoming book, A Choice of Catastrophes, the polymath popularizer seeks to soothe anxieties about global disaster. Says Asimov: "All the scenarios are either very low in probability, or very distant in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Deluge of Disastermania | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Harvard administrators reacted with less enthusiasm, and Withington received a call from the dean's office. "There was nothing Harvard could do to me," he said. "It was perfectly harmless and wholesome--like stealing underwear from Radcliffe and tying it to a flagpole in Harvard Square," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goldfish Swallower Marks Anniversary of First Fish | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

...mean, "Do you think I'm sexy," was the most harmless question any song posed all day yesterday. Anyway, this last paragraph ties into the closing because tonight's stop on the hoopster's road trip is Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg and Laura E. Schanberg, S | Title: On the Road | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

...killing harmless deer isn't bad enough, now the "animals" that call themselves hunters have to put the blame on their wives: "Deer season was the only chance each year of really getting free of feminine domestication [Jan. 15]." If they want to be "free" and out in nature, why don't they mow their lawns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1979 | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...believed to be involved), most of them novices or small-time entrepreneurs. It is by far the largest business in Colombia, providing more revenue than coffee; it is also, astonishingly enough, the largest retail business in Florida. Those who enjoy smoking the weed may regard the traffic as essentially harmless, but wherever the Colombian Connection extends, it spreads violence and corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colombian Connection | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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