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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class. Craig revels in the funky spirit at the Olympic, and Rafelson, with his offbeat sense of humor, his knack for visual surprise, turns the spa into a suitably shabby field of honor. Joe Santo trains for the Mr. Universe competition by pressing weights in a Batman getup. The owner of the Olympic, a toupeed madman who calls himself Thor Erickson (R.H. Armstrong), spies on Mary Tate through a peephole in the floor, finally goes berserk after inhaling a noseful of poppers and, in the film's scariest scene, tries to rape her and murder Craig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Low Life | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...cares deeply about people, unlike his self-righteous and priggish antagonist, the Mexican detective Vargas (Charlton Heston) and is always right in his intuitions of guilt. The other characters in the film are marvelous: Janet Leigh as Heston's hopelessly passive young wife, Zsa Zsa Gabor as the owner of a strip joint, Joseph Cotten as a detective, but best of all, Marlene Dietrich as madam, Welles's former lover...

Author: By Peter Kaplan and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 5/6/1976 | See Source »

...America has never been a great gardening country," says Gardening Author Derek Fell. "But now all that's changing." Declares William MacDowell, president of W. Atlee Burpee Co.: "People are getting frustrated with all the frivolities of life. They want something more basic." Observed San Diego Garden Store Owner Joan Klindt: "You can't live in concrete all your life. Every day I hear people saying things like 'Oh, I don't watch that TV program any more. I'm working out in the yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Pots, Plots & the Good News of Spring | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

Other oracles of undress view it differently. Says Choey Fong, owner of the C.M. Bazaar boutique: "Women are more comfortable with their equality with men and are willing to look feminine again. What is more womanly than bare shoulders?" Cynthia Margulies, fashion coordinator for Raleighs in Washington, senses a conflict in female emotions. Explains she: "Women don't know if they want to be daring and sexy or romantic and Victorian. These new tops bare the shoulder. But some of them come in puckered gingham. They're selling like mad and it's because women want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Look, No Straps | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...among the best-selling artists in popular music--people like Nelson and Jennings, not to mention Emmylou Harris, Michael Murphy, and B.W. Stevenson. Nashville has faded in importance, and Austin is one of the busiest country music centers around, the home of several stars, and the owner of a sound all its own. Longhairs who used to wear peace medallions and listen to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton now wear Wranglers, cowboy boots and Stetsons and spend their Saturday nights at Armadillo World Headquarters, drinking Lone Star beer, rubbing elbows with the rednecks, and carousing to the strains of steel...

Author: By Steve Chapman, | Title: Runnin' Naked | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

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