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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toward you quietly, with an air of intimidating strength. You know his limbs contain sensors that will short his circuits before he can crush your limbs, but you are reluctant to take his hand when he offers it. You know Arok's master is putting words in his mouth from across the room through a microphone in an attache´ case-sized control panel, but you find yourself interviewing him with stiff formality. You know his name is Arok, but you want to call him sir. Your palms grow moist, and the room suddenly seems very small. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: A Better Robot? | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...calls the affair a "disaster that has befallen us." For Christina, report friends, it is quite the opposite: the happy ending to a romance that began in Paris in 1976. It was there that she first met Sergei Kauzov, 37, a slender, quiet man with thinning blond hair, a mouth glistening with gold teeth, and a glass eye that he now and then calmly removes and replaces in public. A graduate of a Moscow foreign-language institute, Kauzov is fluent in French and English as well as his native Russian. He had been sent to Paris as a representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES: The Heiress and Her Comrade | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...floozy jumps in at a stop light. She leers invitingly. He is dumbfounded. She leers some more. He begins to suspect that she has something not quite upright in mind. She smolders. He is within seconds of deciding that a lewd proposition is in the air. She opens her mouth and says, huskily, "It's green." Now he is flummoxed, filled with honest consternation- and intrigued. Can she mean . . . ? "The light," she explains sweetly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bright Clouseau | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...Repression is always around the corner in America, it's always in the air, but I feel free..." He catches his words just as they leave his mouth and with the sense of humor and perspective that may be his saving grace, adds, "Well, you know what they say--'We are made to feel free by exercising a series of meaningless choices." He sighs. "And I seem to be thriving...

Author: By David A. Demilo and Susan C. Faludi, S | Title: George Carlin's Coming of Age | 7/25/1978 | See Source »

...working to regain its lost business. One solution: a device that enables gas stations to charge 25? for the use of an air hose to pump up a tire. Said Nik-O-Lok Manager Martin Miller: "If you think air is free, try blowing up a tire with your mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: About the Right to Free Air | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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