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...know the ghetto and how it smells and falls apart. They'll tell you that looking you in the eye, and describe how much it hurts. Sure they know. All they have to do is turn on the television and watch Mrs. Middle Class vacuum her horribly dirt-ridden shag carpet to know. They watch and wonder why they live the way they...

Author: By Brian F. Sullivan, | Title: Conversation in South Baltimore | 12/5/1980 | See Source »

...twin, my sprinting shadow on yellow shag, wand of summer over my head, it seems that we could run forever while the strong waves crash. But the sun takes its belly under. Flashing above magnetic peaks of the ocean's purple heave, the gannet climbs, and turning, turns to a black sword that drops, hilt-down, to the deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Four Poets and Their Songs | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...comic; and The Great Gonzo, the magnificently inferior creature whose inventors insist, despite damning evidence, that he is not a turkey. Monsters are the remaining important category of beings: such enormities as Sweetums, who is about 9 ft. tall and covered with a three-day growth of brownish shag, and Thog, who is a good deal bigger and still growing, lend chaos to the goings-on but don't say much. Other apparitions, such as the 7-ft. carrot with whom Gilda Radner of Saturday Night Live sang a duet from Gilbert and Sullivan, fit messily into miscellaneous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

That night the four of us dined together in Jim's cabin, drank wine, ate peanuts and watched the pine and spruce wood fire while we ran our bare feet through the deep shag rug. Jim and Mary Lyn did most of the talking. They talked mainly about the Junior Patrol, to which they had both belonged, and about some of the people on it: Peter Fader, who saved a man's life once, Joe Ward, the hottest skier at Winter Park, and Bob Patterson, the patrol leader before Jim, Jim's best friend on the patrol, and Mary...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Tonto and the Ranger Hit the Jackpot at 10,000 Feet, or, Diamond Jim Cleans Out the Moffat Tunnel | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

Almost by definition (the Greek word evangelion means gospel), Evangelicals also believe in bringing the word of God to their fellow man, and today they are bringing it more exuberantly than ever. The faithful throng to gaudy superchurches with 5.000 to 10,000 seats, green shag wall-to-wall carpeting, pit orchestras and Jesus rock bands. From such places the message rolls out, often multiplied many times over on TV programs or projected by satellite to impromptu global parishes of 20 million or more at a time. The message rings out, too, at the early morning pre-work prayer meetings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to that Oldtime Religion | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

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