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...date, "You said I'd love these guys. This sounds like something on PBS " That all changed when the group turned to some golden oldies from the years 1970 to 1974. The applause was thunderous for ELP's version of the Pictures at an Exhibition, a monster hit of 1972. Drummer Palmer took the spotlight as soloist in the churning, pulsating, jazz-oriented Tank. The stage suddenly went dark and then orange, red and yellow lights began to consume him from below, like a huge bonfire The crowd screamed and shouted its approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: ELP: 72,000 Watts in the Name | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...Butley and Otherwise Engaged, which have been Gray's hit plays, the central figure has been a kind of witty monster of unfeeling. In Molly, feelings and emotions are not only unguarded, they are sometimes nakedly out of control. What comes as a surprise is to find Gray making a defense of lies told out of a tenderness for others: "If we didn't lie to the people we love and live with, we wouldn't be able to live with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Direction | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...American Animal Hospital Association (A.A.H.A.), which attracted some 2,500 vets from the U.S. and 15 other countries to Boston this year. The conventioneers were shown everything from daily birth control pills for fecund bitches and orthopedic braces for dachshunds (whose elongated proportions make them prone to backaches) to monster gas-filled balloons that can deliver anesthetics during surgery on horses. Still, the greatest interest was stirred by the plethora of scientific papers underscoring a little-known facet of the pet craze: for all their infatuation with the animal kingdom, Americans all too often mistreat their pets-frequently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Rx for Fido, Fifi and Friends | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...after half the dorm went donw in flames on the Nat Sci 3 final while Carlo was calmly equating his way through Chem 10, hostilities broke out. One of the hockey players, a monster from South Boston who had really wanted to be a doctor but found it interfered with his slap shot, carried a particularly heavy load home from Father's Six one night and stopped in front of Carlo's door. "Fuckin' wonk, I'm gonna major in psychology now, so there," he announced. The opening salvo fired, he and everyone else whiled away the next four months...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: A real special place | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...perceived ?is not a condition that the U.S. and its allies can or need accept." The goal, he feels, is to stabilize the current U.S.Soviet balance through arms negotiations. A new American ICBM, for example, might no longer appear necessary if the Soviets dismantle some of their monster rockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: ARMING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

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