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...played at the spectrum in Philadelphia with Alice Cooper and the Chambers brothers and there were 17,000 13-year-olds there waiting to see Alice Cooper hang himself. The Chambers brothers came out all coked up and ready to go. Then we came out and plunk, I got kit in the head with a roll of toilet paper. Then there were all these kids on reds throwing bottles. This one bottle came down and hit right in front of the band and the next thing I saw was our manager up in the balcony choking shit out of somebody...

Author: By Robert A. Rosenberg and Roger L. Smith, S | Title: Booked to Cook | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

...more coherent imagery knits together Steve Tesich's play. Lake of the Woods is Western desert land. All that roams over it now is a cartoon of Kit Carson (Will Hussung). The hero, Winnebago (Hal Holbrook), though Indian by name, is really our old friend the emotionally parched middle-aged American. He has wandered into this wasteland thinking it a fisherman's dream. It is of course the familiar American Dream, bathetically symbolized by Winnebago's dying daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Cassandra Complex | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...design football bumper stickers and sell them to alumni. Some enterprises die aborning. Jerry White, 26, devised a plastic sheathing to protect telephone poles from woodpeckers but found it too expensive to produce. Other students are still gamely trying to develop a drown-proof infant bathtub, a self-testing kit for lung cancer and a transistorized gadget that would automatically squirt out air freshener every few minutes. But, as Bob Lyle, the 30-year-old acting dean, points out, even failure teaches students something about business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Bootstrap Teaching | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

...major factor in breeding, zoos have discovered, is to provide the animal with surroundings as close to his own native habitat as possible. In the contrived gloom of The Bronx Zoo's "World of Darkness," badgers ramble into burrows and kit foxes scurry over "desert." In the new Milwaukee Zoo, tigers in craggy caves stare across camouflaged moats at antelope. These are no mere frills. "A bird that needs a vertical twig for a particular part of its courtship, or a reptile that requires cyclical temperature change, is more likely to reproduce when the proper ecological furniture is provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Zoo Story | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

Reaching these wounded veterans is only possible when enough good citizens like yourself support it financially. Each Appreciation Kit costs $9.20. We need many contributions of $9.20, $18.40, $55.20, $92.00 and $184.00. Keep in mind, these Kits contain personal items not provided by the government...Will you help...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTER FROM A FRIEND | 10/8/1971 | See Source »

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