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...King Kong). Hearing a whimpering sound within the monster's body, Marcello the gardener pulls out a baby chimpanzee, whom he treats like a child. "It's a fantasy film. You know, surreal," says Mastroianni, 53. "But after all," he asks with a Latin shrug, "isn't life like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1977 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

Plainly, the nation is witnessing a new form of nomadness, already epidemic and spreading fast. Why? Even though the craze began in California, it is not necessarily incomprehensible. Many observers shrug off the outbreak of vanaticism as merely an acute fling of the gadabout restlessness always evident in America. Any Pop sociologist might be tempted to interpret the van binge as simply a bizarre elaboration of the American's longtime romance with the automobile. At one time, folklore attributed the increase in vans to newly liberated youth's need for a convenient trysting place; indeed, the current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: There's No Madness Like Nomadness | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...Mayor Richard Daley. As Chagall explains: "Each window has a different theme-dance, architecture, theater, music, poetry and America." The master, who will be 90 on July 7, doesn't mind if his symbols aren't perfectly clear to viewers. After all, says Chagall with a Gallic shrug, "Me, I do not understand Chagall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 23, 1977 | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...interplay between horse and rider is complex and ultimately mystic. Unless thrown, a rider cannot finish ahead of his horse, and certain racing sophisticates regard betting jockeys as a prelude to bankruptcy. But now comes Cauthen, apparently able to win races aboard a healthy Chihuahua. Track professionals analyze and shrug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY by ROGER KAHN: Who Needs the Derby? | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...Instead, you go to private airports, or private hangars in regular airports, and hang out. Hang out, and look friendly, and don't be shy. Eventually (it may take a few minutes, or a few hours) a kindly executive, a bored pilot, a why-the-hell-not sportsman will shrug and smile and take your bags. Easy...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Thumbing the Friendly Skies | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

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