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...series of witty and often profound essays, a scientist sees the world not in a grain of sand, but in the pullulations of a single cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: The Year's Best | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...black evangelist was sewed up inside a tom-tom and starved to death while drummers pounded incessantly on the skin top. The bodies of several other Christians have been found buried up to their necks in sand, their heads swarming with ants. According to some reports, more than 130 native Protestant pastors and lay church leaders have been assassinated in the landlocked African republic of Chad since last November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHAD: Death and Yondo | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...mouth of a cave Hanging your orphan's rags I saw you in the stalls, in the streets Warming your self by the fire I saw you in the lamentations of misery In blood dripping from the sun In the salt of the sea and the sand and yet You were as beautiful as the earth As children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Palestinian Songs of Liberation | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

Valerie and Mary both work for Mary Tyler Moore Enterprises, Inc., and between them they constitute a neatly balanced show business cartel. One of these leading ladies is sweet, the other spicy. One is conservative, the other radlib. One is tranquil, the other seems to have been born with sand under her skin. Doublehanded, they are bringing a new sophistication back to television entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhoda and Mary -Love and Laughs | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

...than catastrophic; ABC will have to pay for nine shows that are already in the film cans. Another MTM show, Friends and Lovers, may be one of the year's most original sitcoms, even though the adventures of a Boston bassist, played by the delightfully eccentric comedian Paul Sand, have not enjoyed a Rhoda-like beginning. "Sand," admits Tinker, "is making an uphill run." Happily, he is winning that race; last week Friends and Lovers climbed up to ninth in the ratings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhoda and Mary -Love and Laughs | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

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