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...especially back home, and if the attention isn't adequate to his desires, the money probably is. He looks like a comfortable member of the bourgeoisie, outwardly indistinguishable from your average real-estate salesman except for his cowboy hat. The hair is cut regularly, the face is rounder and clean-shaven, and the middle is spreading a little. Success has been pretty good for Jerry Jeff...

Author: By Steve Chapman, | Title: Runnin' Naked | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...featured about Al Romano of North Adams took an unpopular split decision from Brockton's barrage punching Gerry Anson. Both were bleeding from eyebrow cuts and slugging wildly at each other, and they got the only standing ovation of the night when their eight-rounder was over...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Smith Tops Alicea in Harvard Club Tilt | 3/26/1975 | See Source »

...enormous waxy-faced man carooms through the front of the crowd. He is rounder and crazier than helium balloon, and he's spreading false information about the march's route. Losing his temper a black man shoves his hand into the fat man face, crumpling a leaflet into his mouth. Under a bare tree, two securitymen twist the black to the ground. He's screaming, "I won't let any motherfucking son-of-a-bitch stand in our way." With cries of "police agent," and "white racist pig" the crowd tries to bounce the fat man into Park Drive where...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Under A Glumping Sky | 2/4/1975 | See Source »

Music Notes. After my near-hyperbolical rave over the Boys of the Logh several weeks ago, it only seems fair to mention that the company that pressed their records in England went out of business. Rounder, a local label, is expected to release a new record of theirs within a month. To give another indication of their unexcelled folk musicianship: At their last concert in Cambridge, the group's reed-man played two penny-whistles at once...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Rock and Folk | 5/9/1974 | See Source »

...pride swelled in the early '60s, mannequin makers were ready with black models. More recently, they have created "the ethnic look": dummies with Mexican, Eurasian or Oriental features. Some mannequin makers have picked up the nostalgia craze and created Marilyn Monroe models. "We've made the figures rounder and softer, with bellies and bottoms," says William O'Connor of Adel Rootstein. The Houston department store Sakowitz & Co. asked D.G. Williams & Co. to mold the boss's wife, comely Pamela Sakowitz, in plastic. With the aid of photographs and sittings, Williams created a series of plastic Pams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: And Now, The Group | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

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