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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lungs of iron and feet that skitter like a sandpiper's. When he beams, the sun comes out. When he is troubled, the sky falls on Chicken Little. And when he leers, he is the naughtiest boy in class. Class is also the word for his partner and costar, Ann Miller. When haven't we missed her long, lithesome legs? The years have left them far sounder than most currencies. Her taps are tops, routines done with effortless style and sophisticated rhythms. Do we miss burlesque, which forms the substance of Sugar Babies (if sheer fluff has substance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Mighty Mick on Broadway | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...shrewdly manipulates some multinational stock holdings and prepares to take over Greg's company. Greg kidnaps T'sa Li and runs her finger through a meat grinder. T'ang Li rescues his sister. Greg escapes by plane but Rick, piloting his private Messerschmitt, knocks him out of the sky in a dogfight over Manhattan...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Keep the Lid On | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

Even with the brilliant blue sky yesterday in Cambridge, the weather somehow seemed better at Franklin Park, where the women's cross country team (4-2) devasted all opposition at the Greater Boston Championships (GBCs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Grab GBC Title | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

...people came as early as 10 a.m. to find a place by the sidewalk, huddled close to the yellow nylon cord strung between bright baby-blue barrels marking the route of the motorcade. It was a damp morning. The weary buildings belonged to the gray sky. But the street was proud with flags. Children held their own yellow-and-white papal banners-made the night before out of a glossy-stock insert from the Sunday Boston Globe. The HQ Company 181 of the National Guard, out of Worcester, lined the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: Uphams Corner: A Brief Encounter | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...poker game with "four pink ones up and a stranger down." Trav is calls himself a "salvage consultant," but his real business is not in maritime wreck age but rescuing lost souls and money. In recent years, starting with The Dreadful Lemon Sky (No. 16, 1975), McGee has had troubles of his own. He has become increasingly morose, and the cases he handled were no real challenge. In the middle of the journey the Big was "embedded in a life I had some curious way outgrown. I an artifact, genus boat bum, a pale-eyed, shambling, gangling, knuckly man, without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mid-Life Surge of McGee | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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