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...that the bicycle is "the only first-class transportation left to humanity" is to insult horse owners. Horses can reproduce, travel through mud, jump obstacles and return affection. I would love to see a steel frame and wheels perform this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, May 26, 1975 | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

...costume the show but to do the choreography and play the Wiz as well, Holder had canceled out when he encountered "difficulties" with the management. The real problem, he says, was that "they began to have doubts that one man could do it all. And that was an insult to my energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Wizard of Trinidad | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

Urban Americans have become inured to everything from muggings to traffic jams to the destruction of architectural landmarks. But there seems to be one last insult that many city dwellers cannot endure: the invasion of franchised fast-food outlets. Cambridge, Mass., for example, has passed an ordinance that virtually bans any chain store selling burgers, pizza, fried chicken or hot dogs. In Washington, B.C., angry residents recently blocked Gino's (burgers) from building on Dupont Circle. In the residential Broadmoor section of New Orleans, pickets are protesting a Popeye's Fried Chicken shop. At least three community groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Fast-Food Furor | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

...BUTLEY is cast out of a familiar mold. An obnoxious ass of an academic, he freely assaults our sympathies and yet, at the same time, manages to force his grasp upon them. He's ready to insult anyone and everyone who wanders into his cramped little office; he's always willing to play the irritating fool; he struts and scorns in a bald exhibition of inflated ego and pomposity--but, "in point of fact," he's so annoyingly good at it that he can't help but win the appreciation, if not the admiration, of the audience--his audience...

Author: By William Englund, | Title: A Look at Academic Frustration | 4/16/1975 | See Source »

...January 1967, a platoon of Chinese soldiers staged daily marches to the Soviet border, where they turned, dropped their pants, and aimed their buttocks at the Soviet troops on the other side. How did the Soviet Union discourage this traditional Chinese insult...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Joyce-Maynard-is-21,-The-Sixties-Are-History Quiz | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

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