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Champion's dance sequences have always been models of speed, precision and humor, and they are the best things hi this show. Ironically, the outstanding number has nothing to do with the world of Mack Sennett. It is a steel-toed tap done with biting, insuperable authority by all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Reel Sad | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

Magnus has taken on vivid reality for Harriet, though he is the invention of a skilled detective-story writer named Montague Small, who, to the extent that he is a friend of anything, is a friend of the family. Each week Small supplies Blaise with newly elaborated symptoms. Magnus has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncouples | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

The spindly three-legged spacecraft sits silently on the dry, barren landscape. Suddenly, on command from controllers some 200 million miles away, the robot comes alive. A motor whirls; a slender, 10-ft. long arm reaches out, opens a small scoop and digs up some of the reddish soil.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Life Lab | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

For baseball fans it is a great moment in history-like the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth Rock or King John's signing the Magna Carta. There stands Babe Ruth with two strikes on him, gorilla-chested, monkey-faced, pipestem-legged, pointing imperiously to deep centerfield. It is the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The King of Swing | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

Back in 1967 a shy young artist named Kate Millett had her first one-woman New York show. LIFE magazine ran photographs of her most striking sculptures: two-legged piano stools in boots (with socks painted to order), selling for $40 apiece. It was the kind of publicity that artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING: Loose Upper Lib | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

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