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...members break in while all are (of course) seated at dinner and slaughter everyone save Rey, who has taken shelter under the table. He is undone, in an elegantly malicious Bunuel touch, only when his hand reaches stealthily up from under the table to rescue a slice of rare lamb left on his plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dinner for Six | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...years, the 102-story Empire State Building dominated the skyline, tallest of the tall in a city of proud skyscrapers. Then, last year, the twin towers of the World Trade Center rose eight stories higher. Feeling dwarfed by these brash new comers, Robert W. Jones, vice president of Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, the original Empire architects, reflected: "Here's a building that's been the tallest building for 40 years, and now it's no longer the tallest." As Jones tells it:"Almost with tongue in cheek, I thought that maybe we could add a few floors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Growing Up in New York | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...dimensional. They are incapable of enlisting sympathy and are not credible though they do function admirably as vessels that can be filled with ideology or a historical lesson. Even his major figures caught up in the central action of the book--Samsonos simultaneously a commander in chief and a lamb vorotyntey a graduate of the General Staff College and representative of modern patriotic man or Arsenn Blagocharvov but not embittered competency in the tanks--are symbols rather than individuals...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: August 1914 | 10/5/1972 | See Source »

...cereals") have long passed the 6 billion mark in sales. The Near East may never solve its tensions, but American Arabs and Jews agree upon the merits of the felafel - Arabian bread stuffed with beans, salad, pickle, ol ives and sesame sauce. The gyro, a Greek concoction of lamb, tomato and onion, has pre-empted the frankfurter's place on many Eastern city streets. On both coasts, the Mexican taco has become a short-order staple. Soul food has gone national. Colonel Sanders' finger-lickin' Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets now number 3,500. The pizza, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Decline and Fill of the American Hot Dog | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

...English school hymn. Todd Rundgren's I Saw the Light (No. 16) is a traditional and familiar gospel song. For the ultimate reach into the past, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney's next hit may be the recording he has just made of Mary Had a Little Lamb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Piping Hot | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

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