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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whores across the Hump in Air Corps planes; it established no brothels for its men. Chennault wanted only to keep his planes flying and would do anything necessary to keep them in the air, to deliver his message with bombs. Stilwell had the morality of Oliver Cromwell-he was pure, absolutely pure, of graft, adultery, lying, thieving, or any transgression of the Ten Commandments. Such men served the U.S. Army in those days. Both were necessary-but Chennault had to close down his whorehouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of History | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...wittiest, most accomplished purveyors of power pop are Britons Nick Lowe, 29, and Dave Edmunds, 35, both of whom have albums currently in circulation (Lowe's Pure Pop for Now People, Edmunds' Get It) and have just barnstormed the U.S. together as Nick Lowe and Rockpile. They were the opening act cross-country for the reigning past master of the rock-'n'-roll fever dream, Elvis Costello, and set him a tough mark to match. Minutes after bounding onstage at Hollywood High in Los Angeles, Lowe and Edmunds had the crowd dancing and cheering. "Bitchin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bringing Power to the People | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...Away Eyes" is pure fun, as Jagger and Richard do a hokey country ballad about a truckstop girl "with far away eyes" in Bakersfield, California. Jagger's satire of radio preachers is particularly humorous. The album closes with "Shattered," a wierd soliloquy on the perils of New York, which Jagger talks-sings over a murky riff. Jagger sums up life as "laughter, joy and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex," and gloats ironically, "Look at me, I been shattered...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Stones Roll Again | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...else, they are pure dynamite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 29, 1978 | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...rests against a mirror set in an off-white wall. Two 32-in.-high nude statues of her stand on the piano, a nude painting of her hangs on the wall, and there are photographs of her everywhere. Hers is an egocentricity so forthright and complete as to be pure, like that of a six-month-old baby, happy in the discovery of her body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: At 84 Mae West Is Still Mae West | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

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