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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's assistant for National Security Affairs, after arriving late at a party: "I had to practice my belly dancing. One must be prepared in the age of the ERA. You never know when you might be called on to perform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 23, 1978 | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...theory seems to be that if you can squeeze some coordinated effort out of unruly high-school students, you will, after some Kennedy School training, be able to perform the same magic on unruly bureaucrats...

Author: By Maxwell Gould, | Title: What? No Swimming Pool? | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

...piano. The program includes compositions by Haydn and Mozart as well as a premiere of a piece by Babadjianian. Call 876-0956. On Tuesday, Longy offers a Recital of Twentieth Century Flute Music, including the work of Boulez, Klebe, Varese, Jolivet and Schumann. Andrea Mason and Michael DeWart perform at 8:30 p.m.; for further information on the free concert, call...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: Rachmaninoff, With Tusks | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...rock critic of this paper. In any case, they're going to be on "Saturday Night Live" next week, so if he/they haven't made it big before then, "Devo" will certainly be a household word by Sunday morning, along with "noogies.") The aging yet great Joe Cocker will perform feats of contortion deemed physically impossible for the average (straight) human being...

Author: By Laura J. Levine, | Title: Run to the Dead! | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...unlike others of their ilk, these two learned the merits of flexibility--a little-recognized characteristic of the New Right. It is, of course, opportunism, not dogmatism, that gives the Right its bite, and Thurmond and Helms are specialists at tailoring their positions to rightwing fashions. Thurmond may perform octogenerian calisthetics, and Helms may run off his mouth in seemingly candid ways, but the iconoclasm is a put-on. Both are skilled professionals when it comes to pushing the panic buttons on issues like the Panama Canal, gun control and the ERA. And both know that while race...

Author: By Cliff Sloan, | Title: Ruse of the Right | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

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