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...weren't trying to muck up the system as much as we were trying to get students out," Nancy C. Rose '80, a member of the group that organized the protest, said yesterday...

Author: By Erik J. Dahl, | Title: 'Eat-In' Protest Is Small, But Petition Attracts 900 | 9/29/1977 | See Source »

...loathsome child star and a piano player, a pompous research scientist, a frizzy-haired health-food nut. Then comes the perception that something is terribly awry-the piano player is in an iron lung; Fernwood 2 Night, the talk show to end all talk shows, is on and running muck. Something like a televised cross between radio's Bob and Ray and print's Mad Magazine, it is Norman Lear's newest and, so far, funniest invention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Fernwood and the Gall | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...ancient stone and rubbed with coal dust. Laidlaw runs his investigation from a fading hotel: "The architecture was Victorian and very dirty. It had been cunningly equipped with curlicues and excrescences, the chief effect of which was to make it an enormous gin for drifting soot and aerial muck. It stood now half-devoured by its catch, weighted with years of Glasgow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Criminal Outrage | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...word about the cox. If he were to yell, "Jump in the water," chances are that eight oarsmen would be sloshing in the muck moments later. Some of these coxes have let the power get to their heads...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: It's Six in the Morning; They Must Be Crazy | 5/18/1977 | See Source »

...striking miner, is shot in the back of the head one night, and, ironically, the outside pressure brought to bear from the incident forces Duke to negotiate. The scene causes anger to rise cold in your throat--it's strangely impersonal, yet moving. A flashlight shines on some muck on the ground, and a miner's dirty hand stirs through it. "Know what that is?" the voice asks. "Them;s brains. Shit. That's the way with a dirty scab. Shoot you when you're not even looking. Shit." Kopple was asked to film Jones' funeral, and it's here...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Seek Not Your Fortune Way Down In The Mines | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

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