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...minority youngsters subject to disciplinary measures-often suspensions and expulsions. During the first four months of desegregation in Denver, 3,844 high school students were suspended, 2,748 of whom were minority students. In Louisville, one principal complained: "Those kids tend to talk back more, they tend to be louder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Desegregation Grades | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...that's near Europe and Asia." Caan and Gould fall back on a series of frantic semaphores to the audience, calling attention to how adorably prankish they are being. Director Mark Rydell's notion of how to give shape to a scene apparently is to make it louder and faster. This does produce an occasional laugh, just as somebody pounding a piano with a baseball bat is bound to produce an occasional musical tone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sowing Wild Oafs | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...Blackwell's Ten Worst-Dressed Women' list, so this costume is in keeping with my image," says the singer-composer, who will sport beaded red and white striped knickers, as they call 'em in London, beneath his robes. Elton's tour, which he has dubbed "Louder Than Concorde But Not Quite As Pretty," has already sold 136,000 tickets at Madison Square Garden after a single day of radio commercials. So are these sartorial shenanigans necessary? Jokes John: "It is easier to come on as the Statue of Liberty than the Washington Monument." ∙ Patriotism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 5, 1976 | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

...silent motion. Downstage, one small body remains stranded, frozen in a single pool of light. In the center, a flood of darkness. Between the idea and the reality...The isolated dancer begins to beat her foot slowly against the ground. Between the conception and the creation...The beating comes louder then faster and faster. Between the desire and the spasm... Until suddenly, lifted by her own momentum, she rises...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Falls The Shadow | 5/13/1976 | See Source »

...sketch last week, Caesar couldn't sleep because Coca was sitting up late watching a jungle movie on television. As the native drums got louder, Coca would go into a wild savage tribal dance in her oriental pajamas, growing so frenzied that she began to believe there was an intimate connection between her dance and the action on the screen. Caesar, furious, came out after her to turn off the set, but he too became transfixed by the TV (you can imagine how fresh and futuristic those initials sounded to viewers in the early fifties) and soon found himself throwing...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: T.V. | 5/13/1976 | See Source »

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