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Once it seemed like it would go on forever, but deep down they should have known the end would come. MX jokes are all used up, and "window of vulnerability" puns are passe.

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Cutting Edge of Humor | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

Declaring that the store looked "like a bowling alley," Stutz started an expensive renovation. The result, she boasts: "The beginning of boutiques." Rows of tiny shops, scarcely bigger than Victorian dressing cupboards, were set up on the main floor. The street of shops became Bendel's fame and still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Queen of Styles | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

It was a dream that launched the upbeat, activist 1960s in U.S. Protestantism. Why not arbitrate the seemingly passe traditions that divide Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians and others, to create one grand united church? The bold vision produced the "Consultation on Church Union" (COCU), a series of discussions involving most major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Urge to Merge | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

THE LONG-AWAITED double album upon which Warner Brothers has been banking its recently sagging fortunes will probably enrich the corporate coffers, but it will never sell the 15 million copies Rumours sold back in 1976. Tusk has not received the fanfare accorded to Fleetwood Mac's two previous albums...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Driftwood of the '70s | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

Classed as a black humorist in the '50s, Barth was hailed as a fabulist in the '60s. He was actually becoming a school of one. Following hints in his own work and examples out of Beckett, Borges and Nabokov, he evolved assumptions that increasingly governed his fiction. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost in the Funhouse | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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