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They have wilted into a stinking pile of compost nurtured by irresponsibility, disrespect, laziness, greed and moral decay, exemplified by TIME's feature story on Last Tango...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 12, 1973 | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...incessant sound of music, a phenomenon that has handed the record business a supremely marketable mania. Every week, hundreds of records are poured into radio stations by promoters trying to crack the crucial list of Top 40 hits that get saturation air play. Every year, 5,000 new albums pile upon endless racks in drugstores and supermarkets, there to await the ready purses of Mom and her affluent children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Records: Moguls, Money & Monsters | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...movie opens with Beatrice's grimace at a department store mirror while she dons a platinum curled wig. She makes a garish picture--an aging belle whose talent for mimicry has twisted into selfmockery. She feeds on pipe dreams to bolster her comedy, but even these pile up to taunt her selfdeception...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: All That Glitters Is Not Marigolds | 2/9/1973 | See Source »

...joyously rolled it up and down the steps of the National Assembly over and over again. Up the street, another group heaved rocks into the bookstore owned by one of Diem's brothers, tossed the books and religious objects into the gutter and put the torch to the pile of rubble. The people danced, chanted and shouted around the bonfire, which burned for hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Looking Back: TIME Correspondents Recall the War | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...Cliffe swimmers trimmed seconds off their previous record times in several individual events to pile up 139 points. 27 points ahead of second-place Brown. The University of Maine and Rhode Island placed third and fourth respectively...

Author: By Dale S. Russakoff, | Title: 'Cliffe Tankers Triumph At Four-Way Swim Meet | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

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