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...Pathetique." As usual, time was limited. He seized the moment quickly, placing members of his own orchestra among local players so that Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians could demonstrate a point of technique rapidly. Then he plunged ahead, a riveting little figure dressed to silk-screen perfection in a mod-Mao white suit by Designer Hanae Mori. He virtually pummeled the unruly sound into order and expressiveness, right leg stamping the beat, arms punching deep into the recalcitrant horn section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Playing Catch Up with Ozawa | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...last night's Crimson basketball win, Fordham's Tom Penders seemed like the typical young college coach--the frisonne hairstyle, mod haberdashery, and courtside histrionics. But beneath that outer tinsel is the real tinsel--the alluring glitter of big-time basketball. Penders, the consummate recruiter, wants to create a national power. While he'll have to bide his time with the lowly Rams, his past performances indicate his goal is not out of reach...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Man and Superman | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...Mod Squadder Link Hayes would have called Restic's strategy "solid." Brown, after suffering through a 5-for-15 opening half in the air, chucked 6-and-6 and accumulated 119 yards upstairs in the final 30 minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown's Play-Action Foold Dartmouth | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Standard dress at the track is informal. Teenagers wear blue jeans, and the more sophisticated trainers and owners promenade in mod John Travolta suits, with the collar unbuttoned enough to show off their medallions and a swarthy shock of manly hair...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Going to the Dogs | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...theater where the Beatles performed, and the Plaza Hotel, where they stayed. Sometimes it is all too obvious that the film was really shot in Hollywood, but there are many details that are just right. The rioting Beatles fans still wear the clothing and hair styles of the pre-mod years; Disc Jockey Murray the K and Ed Sullivan (in the eerie reincarnation of Impressionist Will Jordan) are on hand to play their pivotal roles in the drama. The Beatles themselves appear only as ghosts: on record jackets, in silhouette, in newsreel footage and, naturally, via their old song hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teen Dreams | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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