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Purists may deplore such organized programs, but most musicians welcome them. No matter how gratifying it is for its own sake, street performing remains a perpetual audition. Few itinerant musicians would turn down a club date, TV shot or record contract.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Bands of Summer | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Collected Stories: 1939-1976 provides a chance to isolate and trace one strand of Bowles' remarkable career. The book's 39 tales are not only worth reading on their own, but their assembly should dispel several myths that have grown up around Bowles' work. First, spreading his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Steps off the Beaten Path | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

The essential Bowles plot charts a clash between two cultures, one usually Western and the other primitive. Primitive almost always gets the home court advantage; Bowles favors settings in North Africa, near the deadly lure of the Sahara, or in stifling, vegetation-choked places in Mexico or South America. Visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Steps off the Beaten Path | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

No one who saw Rosemary's Baby is likely to forget the fortress that housed the satanic gathering. In real life, however, the forbidding turrets and gables guard one of the oldest, ritziest and most famous apartment buildings in Manhattan. It is the Dakota, behind whose 2-ft. -thick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking Walls | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Author Maas' novel is a comedy of terrors that is all the more absorbing because of the methods used by both sides: the law bending the law, the mob making a farce of it. The area's top don, whom Wainwright is out to get despite his non...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out Like Flynn | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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