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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Since I was 10-years-old, I've wanted to be All-American," McInally says. "Last year, when I was picked to the second team All-American squad, well, shoot, it was the greatest thrill of my life...

Author: By Joy Horowitz, | Title: McInally Vies for All-American Status | 9/27/1974 | See Source »

...with the Wind or Graham Greene's The Quiet American--don't convey the reality of the underside of the world they're nostalgic for, and so they end up in cheap sentimentality or cheap cynicism. Roth takes neither of these easy paths. When Lieutenant Trotta has his men shoot some striking factory workers, he does it with no ill will or satisfaction--but he still kills people for wanting work that doesn't mean getting tuberculosis. All Roth's jokes, even the quietest, have a hard, tired edge to them. When Carl Joseph realizes that there are countries which...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Remembering in Decline | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...undoubtedly evoke many letters from sob sisters and bleeding hearts, but mine isn't one of them. They deserve everything they get and then some. I much prefer the treatment handed out here hi Iran for dealers in hard drugs. They put 'em against a wall and shoot 'em. Long live the Shah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Sep. 2, 1974 | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

Whhhhaaaack! "The trouble with the tour today (Whhhhaaaack!) is that there's just too many goddamn (Whhhhaaaack!) kids out here who cannot play. They come out of college (Whhhhaaaack!) and because they can shoot 70 on a golf course, they think they can play. (Whhhhaaaack!) Hell, half of 'em can't beat Tom Thumb with a gun. (Whhhhaaaack! Whhhhaaaack!) We got about about a hundred of those." Whhhhaaaack! Whhhhaaaack! Whhhhaaaack...

Author: By Harry HURT Iii, | Title: The Real Victor Was a Cool Ole Killer | 8/20/1974 | See Source »

...hostages; they would take three women and the Rev. Joseph O'Brien, the prison chaplain, with them in their escape vehicle, and let them go later. Carrasco said that their intention was to flee to Cuba and take their problem to Fidel. "If Castro decides to shoot me, he'll be doing me a favor," said Carrasco. Dominguez declared that he too was prepared to die. Cuevas, who does not speak English, asked a Spanish-speaking newswoman to kiss his wife for him "for the last time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: Blood Hostages | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

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