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...spread, investments of both high hopes and hard cash were being made in Tusk. Like the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac was the kind of "monster" group that was expected to pull the business out of the doldrums. Both records, indeed, seem well up to such heavy hauling, especially since the runaway success of In Through the Out Door, Led Zeppelin's album of surprisingly graceful power, has cleared the road and got rock fans to reach for their wallets again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Monster Season | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...much did he weigh before? "More than now." Hence reports of his fluctuations spread through the opera world like a runaway Dow Jones average: up 25, down 80, up 60. But he realizes that if he remains too heavy he could undermine his robust health. Which is why he periodically submits to the dread ordeal of a diet. He is currently forbidden to drink wine, and his most opulent meal is zuchini, rice and 250 grams (about half a pound) of meat or fish cooked with a few drops of oil. More tragic than any scene he plays onstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera's Golden Tenor | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...runaway son of a nuclear A-bomb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matt Sabetti: Combining Both Power and Willpower | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

...balls were the first debris to hit U.S. waters from the runaway Mexican oil well that has dumped 265,000 tons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, causing one of the biggest oil spills in history-and potentially a major environmental disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Pancakes and Mousse off Texas | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...circulation promotion writer at Esquire decided to start a magazine of his own, freely borrowing Esquire's formula while gambling that the courts might now be more lenient about nudity. Instead of Esky the bug-eyed lecher as a trademark, Hefner created the Bunny. Facing Playboy's runaway success but unwilling to become a "skin book," Esquire made a wobbly retreat from barbershop sexism. Soon its advertising men protested that Esquire had become too stuffy and intellectual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Stuck with a Magazine's Genes | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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