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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never had such pressure." Declares Kathleen Connell, director of housing for the city of Los Angeles: "It has got to the point where if there is a vacancy, owners aren't advertising. News of a vacancy is getting out by word of mouth, and by the next day there's a line of applicants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Tight U.S. Apartment Squeeze | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...technology" with carbon dioxide and came up with Pop Rocks. Crystalline in shape and so far available in three flavors (cherry, orange, grape), Pop Rocks are made of sugar, corn syrup, milk derivative and artificial coloring and flavoring. When the small crystals of candy are placed in the mouth, tiny chambers of trapped CO2 are activated by moisture. The result: a popping and crackling that delights the kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rock It to Me | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...finally as a pair of wings launching her into solipsistic flight. Through an accumulation of flawlessly-timed, needle-sharp details, Casson awakened issues of astonishing complexity: identity and mask, fantasy and madness, reality and imagination, or--as when she held the bunched skirt to her breast, moving her own mouth in the fishlike gulps of a nursing baby--the poignant tension between who we are and what we create. Yet dance, as distinct from brilliant mime, remained subsidiary and instrumental in this work: it was only one of the trajectories out of loneliness, one of the disguises for the unbearably...

Author: By Juretta J. Heckscher, | Title: More Than a Theory | 4/19/1978 | See Source »

...time Baloff had given up Dart-mouth's only two runs of the game in the fourth (one on a homer by Mike Durham), Harvard already led 9-0 by virtue of five runs in the first, one in the second and three in the third. And guess what, only one was unearned...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Batsmen Chill Dartmouth, Sweep Twinbill | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...insert his fingers, opening the character up. Scottie's business partner, for example, is a huggable, Jewish, Lou Jacobi-type (warmly played by A. Larry Haines), the character who kids in plays always call "Uncle Lou" or "Uncle Irving." The sole function of this fellow is usually to mouth exposition and provide comic relief (kvetch, kvetch, kvetch). But in the second act, out of nowhere, he explains to Jud why he acts so paternal towards Scottie, even though they're the same age. He mentions, and not at great length or for the purpose of generating tears, the loss...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: If You Have a Lemmon, Make Tribute | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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