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...sure, they must have destroyed illusions that Americans are all women or all hucksters who do little other than peddle levi jeans and watch La Verne and Shirley. But if they had done nothing more than showcase themselves over there as one of the finest college vocal groups this country has to offer, that would have been both valid and sufficient...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Heavy On The Russian | 4/14/1977 | See Source »

...could do circus loops without destroying the bridgework) remind one of a cross between Everest and Margaret Dumont. He is a natural wonder and a natural comedian. Mark Szpak's slithering, thrilling Juana deBoise puts him in a class with Lupe Velez and Luis Tiant--all unintelligible delights. David Levi as Sonya Vabitsche looks like a very funny lab sample of Venereal Disease germs and David Merrill as Ophelia Heartbeat is a knockout. The rest of the cast works well, too. But an extension of this paragraph must go to Japes Emerson, who plays Cardinal Cynne. Leering with the shifty...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: A Canine in a Cummerbund | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Although the "new casualness" evinced by the President's Levi's-and-sweater wardrobe may convince some that Carter is a man of little pretention, others are equally certain that the peanut farmer's meteoric rise from obscurity to prominence has resulted in a "Messiah complex" of apocalyptic proportions. However, whether or not Carter's hotline really connects to some higher world than Moscow is still an open question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notes From The Crimson Civics Primer | 2/10/1977 | See Source »

...beer were $1.50, but many of the dancers seemed to have forgotten their January budgets. One man held a Budweiser in one hand and twirled his partner over his shoulders with the other, pouring part of the beer on the bare feet of an oblivious woman in white Levi corduroys dancing next...

Author: By Anthony Y. Strike, | Title: The Inauguration | 1/28/1977 | See Source »

...over the past half-century. The editors have placed their imprimatur on "McCarthyism," "McLuhanism," "Maoism" and "Naderism." They have acknowledged a menagerie of latter-day elves and monsters, from "Hobbits" (Novelist J.R.R. Tolkien's small, furry earth dwellers) to "Nessie" (who lives in Loch Ness). Trade names like Levi's, Muzak, Nescafe and Jell-O have officially entered the English language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Haarlem to Nzima | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

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