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The magnetic high spots of the show are provided by the brothers Gregory and Maurice Hines, whose feet are tap-dancing marvels of percussive precision.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hot Feet, Vamps and Ragmatazz | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

The event's first day was devoted to the stylized art of dressage, in which the rider, using reins and pressure from his legs, guides his horse through intricate maneuvers ("Serpentine three loops, the first and the third at canter, the second counter-canter ..."). Davidson kept Might Tango under control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Touch of Iron and Elegance | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Mork & Mindy (Thursday, ABC, 8 p.m. E.D.T.). Were it not for one inspired stroke of casting, this sci-fi sitcom would be indistinguishable from the rest of the kiddies' drivel aired by ABC at 8 each night. Robin Williams, a new young comic, sends Mork & Mindy into hyperspace. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1978-79 Season: III | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

EARLY ONE MORNING in mid-August, 400 Philadelphia policemen milled outside a ramshackle Victorian house five blocks from the University of Pennsylvania campus, awaiting orders from their superiors. The policemen knew roughly what task was expected of them before the cool morning became a sweltering summer day; they were to...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Summer in the City | 9/21/1978 | See Source »

In one sense they are right. For years The Crimson has been outspoken on issue its staff has perceived as important, and its opinions have, it is true, rearly concurred with those of the sultans of University and Massachusetts Halls. At times these opinions have found their way into news...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Just The Facts, Sir | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

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