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At 22, Webber, the son of a composer, is an articulate champion of all kinds of music who grew up on Bill Haley but customarily recommends Stravinsky's taut, granitic Symphony in Three Movements "as an object lesson to any rock band that wants to play with precision and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock Passion | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

Perhaps this line of argument seems trivial. Languages does roughly what we want; words and sentence constructions describe what we mean with passable precision. Why should a revolution require a new language of its own?

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: Godard's 'Le Gai Savoir' | 10/27/1970 | See Source »

Strenuous Responsibility. "Clean" is the adjective Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings constantly invite: clean as a bone, as a desert rock, as a haiku. She refutes the idea that discipline is masculine. O'Keeffe may, in a special sense, be the most aristocratic artist America has yet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Loner in the Desert | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

Percentages in ads are not new; Ivory Soap's "99 and 44/100 percent pure" slogan was first floated in 1882. The big use of the old numbers game right now is a result of the hard tussle for the consumer's dollar in a period of economic slack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Percentage Power | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

Inside halfback Ekkama used traps, short passes, and fancy footwork to dominate the midfield play. In a game characterized by long disorganized passing, Ekkama's precision play frequently brought applause from the stands.

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Soccer Team Beats Amherst, 3-1; Third Period Goals Decide Game | 10/8/1970 | See Source »

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