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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy as it might sound. "Hell no, we won't go." quips a recalcitrant young man, face painted red, white and blue. Some mill too fast, others too slowly: still others stare into the camera when they should be ignoring it. Italia, a billiard-bald extra known as "Miss Bald America," sidles up to Charles in mid-song, plops down behind her and stares fetchingly into the camera. Cut. Hausman, neck veins bulging, yells at her; she leaves, muttering, "I bet he's bald under that cap." Hausman reshoots the scene successfully-until a young man strides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Manhattan: Reliving the '60s | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...powers that be in this university are tightening their control over every aspect of the student experience at Harvard. This attack directly challenges the ability of students to engage in free academic, or even personal development. Student energies are focused on responding to particular erosions of their rights, but miss the broader counter-revolution that has emerged--the administration's attempt to overturn the gains won by students in the last decade...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: Counter-Revolution at Harvard | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

...even of the biggest rally since the good old days. One or two of the old timers were still in our midst, keeping the Hibachi going, on into the third night. Some were here just because they were glad to get out of the dorm, or to miss Expos at 9 a.m. But the real heavies, who had remained since the '60s, who'd taken years off and done their time in Frisco, Miami, and Holyoke Plaza, were of a different...

Author: By Peter R. Reynolds, | Title: Tenting Tonight | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

...altogether push her family aside. It's got to be a family that fits. It hasn't got to be aristocratic, it's got to be nice-that's all. The girl doesn't have to have a title. She can be Miss Something-or-Other, provided she's suitable as a wife and Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Getting the Right People | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...Rome last Christmas, a financially strapped family of the nobility threw a picnic in their palazzo to which guests were invited to bring their own liquor. "They were very casual about it -people were wearing jeans and pearls, and everyone had a great time," says Querel. "The rich miss the old days, but they learn to live without them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN,MIDDLE EAST: The Quiet Life of the Rich | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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