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...worked because artists had nowhere else to go. There was no space uptown. Greenwich Village was already turning into the Skag Alley it now is, a tureen of thieving junkies and grimy plastic bars among the too-expensive brownstones. The East Village, with its tiny roach-filled apartments and manic adolescents shooting speed in the air shaft, was a dismal alternative. As for Brooklyn or Queens, one artist remarked: "You might as well work in Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Last Studios | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...easy enough to quarrel with McBride's resolutely gloomy portrait of the future. But there is no disputing his distinctive cinematic flair or the definitive excellence of his relatively unknown actors-Steven Curry as Glen, Shelley Plimpton as Randa, and Garry Goodrow as the manic magician. McBride, 29, made Glen and Randa on a slender $480,000 budget, without help or hindrance from the major studios. Austerity and autonomy, combined with genuine talent, have produced one of the best and most original American films of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Primitive Odyssey | 6/14/1971 | See Source »

...climax of Gebel-Williams' act comes when his favorite Bengal tiger leaps onto the back of an elephant. The trainer follows, scrambling up the elephant, straddling the tiger and saluting the audience like a manic, peroxided Tarzan. It took two years for him to teach elephant and tiger to cooperate. He had them sleep close together. Later, he took them for walks. Even now, the elephant wears thick padding on his neck during the stunt: Gebel-Williams has been unable to squelch the tiger's instinct to gnaw a hole into the neck of his "victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Big Cat with Big Cats | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

Nash practices were lengthy and spartan. He was accused of having recruited prospects whose academic abilities fell far below Ivy standards. Several times critics claimed that he attempted to use verbal psyche tactics on rival oarsmen before important races. His supposedly manic pursuit of victory created enemies...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 5/1/1971 | See Source »

...minutes on Saturday morning, it might have seemed that General Jack D. Ripper, the manic guardian of "precious bodily fluids" from Dr. Strangelove, was at the controls. From the Army's civil defense warning center in Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain, a signal was flashed directly onto the wires of the Associated Press and United Press International. It was a notification that the nation was in a state of emergency, confirmed by an appropriately sinister code "authenticator"-HATEFULNESS, HATEFULNESS. Scores of radio and television stations across the nation broadcast the emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Not So Alert | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

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