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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Day and night you find them, on museum steps, in parks and markets, along waterfronts and under arcades. The groups have antic names like the Tarmac Trio, Three-Part Invention and Dynamic Logs. Mimes, jugglers and fire-eaters often join in the act. Not far behind them come the hot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Bands of Summer | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Increasingly, shopping centers and civic institutions are recruiting street musicians instead of complaining about them. Boston's Quincy Market, Manhattan's Lincoln Center and San Francisco's Cannery all audition or actually hire them for scheduled performances. In Boston, a nonprofit group called Articulture Inc. deploys street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Bands of Summer | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

No, it is not radio's answer to television's Wheel of Fortune or $20,000 Pyramid. And no, Susan Stamberg is not out to make a deal, or even to see if the price is right. She is co-host of All Things Considered, surely the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: All the News Fit to Hear | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

War, as Jonathan Swift put it, is that "mad game the world so loves to play." If the game is even madder these days because of the threat of nuclear annihilation, the world has learned to keep alive humanity's fascination with it by doing what both Homer and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: W.W. II: Present and Much Accounted For | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

But the world of print provides only part of the evidence of sharpening interest in the war. Novels such as The Boys from Brazil, The Eagle Has Landed and Soldier of Orange have found their way into the movies, and Ken Follett's Eye of the Needle is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: W.W. II: Present and Much Accounted For | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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