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...hundred eighty-plus glittering objects arranged around a central throne testify to a retiring religious janitor's conviction that he was commissioned to build a monument to Jesus in preparation for the Second Coming...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Faculty '76 | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

Five people, including a janitor, passed by during the operation, but the Yalies escaped detection, McDonald said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drum Undamaged After Brief Sojourn With Yale Thieves | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...Levi's jacket and open-necked shirt, standing 6 ft. 3 in. even without his stetson, Jones seems to have sprung from a Marlboro ad. In fact this quintessential Texan-moving slowly, talking slowly, even smiling slowly -was born in Albuquerque. From 13 on, he worked as a janitor, a cattle weigher, a powderman in a Colorado mine, a highway surveyor, a truck driver, a uranium prospector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH - THEATER: TexasTripIe Play | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

Parker recreates old movie clichés with shameless abandon: a car chase is routed through a barn, from which the autos emerge covered with straw and squawking hens. Fat Sam's speakeasy has a janitor (played by a winning, wistful Albin Jenkins) who mops floors and dreams of being a tap dancer. Parker reproduces, in the character of Blousey. the goody-goody bitchiness that made the "nice girls" of gangster flicks such eminent candidates for strangulation. The hoofing is exuberant and surprisingly adept, even if Paul Williams' musical score is a little slick. The whole movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Caesars in Never-Never Land | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...without a winter coat," says Agnes. "We had nothing. Nothing." After several months of sifting coal, Koco got a job as a machinist, making gears at Massey-Ferguson. Then came a layoff. Koco turned to making boxes. He was a press operator. He worked part time as a school janitor (and studied English). He went back to Massey-Ferguson, was laid off three weeks ago. Now Agnes has found a job there, operating a grinding and shaving machine. "My trouble is not to find a job," says Koco. "My trouble is to find enough time to sleep with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The New Immigrants: Still the Promised Land | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

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