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They flock to the festival in four-wheel-drive pickups, station wagons and huge recreational vehicles for a couple of days of shopping for items that range from electrified fences and worm medicine to a $200 "rocking sheep" covered in natural fleece. Wolfing down golf-ball-size chunks of fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Sheep and Shear Ecstasy | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

As Amis' introduction piles condition upon condition, the fear arises that his book will consist of blank pages. Instead, the anthology presents nearly 300 separate entries, the work of more than 120 poets. The only major writer to receive substantial space is Byron. Though it is preferable to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Unapologetic Anthology | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Most of the dead workers had come from nearby West Virginia farms, and their families gathered that afternoon at a local firehouse, a drab concrete building that was serving as a makeshift morgue. One worker at the tower, Robert Steele, 35, lost ten members of his family−four brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tower of Death | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

Mary Gordon is frightened about the money that she is making-$300,000 from the paperback sale, for example. "I deserve something, but not all that," she muses. She will take a trip to Spain, teach a course on the religious novel at Amherst next year, finish a new book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Lib | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

The entire cast is first-rate. The producers were smart to turn to accomplished stage actors rather than the Hollywood Squares refugees who usually populate network miniseries. Marvin Chomsky's direction, while more efficient than inspired, is well above typical TV standards, and some of his images kick the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Reliving the Nazi Nightmare | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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