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...only to experienced hands, workshoppers do the heavy jobs like pouring concrete. "We were flower children," says Maria Gonzalez, 30, "and we had our vague ideas about praying and meditation and 15,000 relationships. But most of us have grown up now, and what is happening here is just plain hard work. A city has to be built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: A City Has to Be Built | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

Down Mass Ave toward Central Square, Bel Canto cooks the currently chic deep dish pizzas. This is plain and simple gluttony, and to compound the crime, Bel Canto features limousine liberal toppings like broccoli, raisins and spinach. Pretty soon they'll be using brie cheese...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cuisine Art in Cambridge: The Great Dining Hall Escape | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

...scene is like a calendar photograph displaying the splendors of rural life. At the Jin Ma (Golden Horse) commune on the lush Chengdu Plain of Sichuan province, the well-watered rice fields are emerald green. Thatch houses are surrounded by luxuriant clumps of bamboo and persimmon. Hundreds of teen-agers work at a prosperous collective silk-spinning plant near by. The peasants have radios, watches, bicycles, money in the bank, food on the table. Some of them treasure framed red certificates, whose bold black characters commend them for having achieved "wealth through diligent labor." Clearly, the Jin Ma commune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Up the Farm | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...motivation in protesting the showing as the women who gathered outside Quincy House, they are wrong. Codinha, the chief assistant DA, and Hardoon, an assistant DA charged with handling the Deep Throat case, considered the movie obscene--not sexist, not likely to lead to violence against women, but just plain dirty...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Strange Case of the Cleared Throat | 8/5/1980 | See Source »

...Random Winds, Plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

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