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...seat belt [April 29]. But it was not easy to regain control of my car. First, I had to get rid of the offensive red light that glared "Fasten Seat Belt." I thought this would still the buzzer, but no; luckily, my adrenaline gave me the power to rip out the wiring system. I also managed to dismantle the buzzer that told me the key was in the ignition while the door was open. My wife and I still use our seat belts at all times-but without the accompanying sonet lumiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1974 | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...chance see a group of long-haired young men playing a game that looks suspiciously like helmet-less football with vaguely suicidal rules, do not be alarmed. And if there is an air of the 19th century about them, do not worry, you are not a latter-day Rip Van Winkle...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Harvard to Mark First Football Game | 5/14/1974 | See Source »

...fresh music. Music director David Garlock, working with half a dozen orchestrators and a fine 21-member orchestra, has shined up the original score with some fairly sophisticated arrangements that owe more to modern classical music than to Hollywood. But these changes are never pretentious and the orchestra can rip into genuine schmaltz when it's called...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Oz You Like It | 5/2/1974 | See Source »

These and many other aural Rip Van Winkles have returned from a generation's oblivion to find themselves the heroes and heroines of a fast-growing, nationwide cult. Through clubs, catalogues and newsletters, tens of thousands of fans and some 4,000 active traders are collecting and listening to tapes and cassettes of programs from the golden age of radio-an era that lasted roughly from the 1930s to the early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Rip Van Ranger | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Happy Days. ABC. Tuesday, 8-8:30 p.m. E.D.T. This is the American Graffiti rip-off in which the producers made off with the movie's star (Ron Howard) and its ambience (smalltown America in the 1950s), but with none of the sensitivity and sensibility that made the film memorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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