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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dunno. At a rock concert. In our band! Hey, you're Rodney, aren't you? Sure! You're the one with the yellow shirt from this afternoon. I remember your name from Peyton Place. You remember. "Is it up, Rod? Is it up real good? Then go stick it up Allison MacKenzie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

...Rumanian stopped complaining about linesmen long enough to trounce Ken Rosewall 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 at the Avis Challenge Cup competition in Hawaii-a $10,000 victory that made him the fourth professional to win more than $1 million on the tennis tour (the others: Arthur Ashe, Rod Lover and Rose-wall). "I never count how much I make, only how much I spend," commented Nastase, who keeps a fancy flat and a Lancia and a Bentley in Brussels. Do his Communist countrymen ever fret over his capitalistic success? Says he: "Everyone is jealous if you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 15, 1976 | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...Yourself veteran, infuses a rich pathos into two laments about the hollowness of show business life, "What's Next" and "Watch the Birdie." "A Few Years," one of Barclay's most majestic numbers, begins as a take-off on blind American optimism; through the sincerity of Rod Skinner's rendition, however, it becomes a moving affirmation of the need to go on believing in America's future, despite the scars of "bigotry, of pride...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Bicentennial Folly | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...Cuisenaire rods helped budding arithmeticians learn the basics of addition and subtraction. Example: using sight and touch, a child could tell that a 3-cm. green rod plus a 5-cm. yellow rod equaled an 8-cm. brown rod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 12, 1976 | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

Gable and Lombard, a steamy account of the King's stormy third marriage, will open early this year. So will W.C. Fields and Me, starring Rod Steiger. Mel Brooks is making a silent comedy, while Peter Bogdanovich is about to start work on a talkie set in the silent era called Nickelodeon. Ken Russell, fresh from destroying Liszt, will now have a go at Valentino, casting Rudolf Nureyev as the screen's greatest lover. Recently, Elia Kazan started to film F. Scott Fitzgerald's own Hollywood novel, The Last Tycoon. Even now, a large German shepherd called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Monkey Business | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

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