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"God" is a bearded young man enveloped in a vast billow of golden silk, perched slightly above the "Mother of the World." It is a difficult role. For 90 minutes he sits without flinching a muscle while, on the tiered stage below, rainbow-clad worshipers from the world's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mish-Mass | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

HUMDINGER. Yes, indeed. Jerry Ford hums and we all get dingered. Nero, at least, had the good taste to play a fiddle.

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Humdingering | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

She writes most of her own songs, filling pads of paper with words. Sometimes a fragment bursts into several paragraphs. When that happens, Phoebe hums a tune and sets it to music. Most of her early compositions are sad, reflecting disappointment in herself, especially with her looks.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: End of Night | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

Alone or in clusters, attackers bear down on him at breakneck speed, their razor-sharp blades ripping into the white ice. From any angle, in the open or from behind a screen of players, a shooter fires and the rock-hard puck hums toward the goalie at more than 100...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courage and Fear in a Vortex of Violence | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

A compact dynamo who hums with confidence, Los Angeles-born Brown admits to being incurably stagestruck. At age nine, he attended a performance by French Singer Edith Piaf. He can still feel her impact: "She suffered more than anyone could." Too self-conscious to be an actor, he says: "It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Sweet Dreams | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

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