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...dreamed up this particular opaque gem, Clapton's lazy guitar and uninspired vocals add no lustre. This prolonged and painful recollection of a past love is chicory-bitter moaning. It won't generate much energy except in your fancy new turntable. You know, the kind you can program to skip tracks...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Double Trouble at Shangri-La | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...like the color of his shirt and the watch on his wrist. Why the watch? "So I can see what time it is between the second and third games," he said--at exactly 5:43 p.m.--after a 15-7, 15-4, 15-3 thriller. And why the shirt? Skip it, that...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Racquetmen Do It Again, 9-0 | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...more than a period, as Gilligan set up Skip Stovern for a power-play goal at 1:22 of the final frame and Channel 7 was hardly complaining that its initial broadcast was an old-fashioned thriller. The lone complaint came from a Radcliffe sophomore who had to leave her first college hockey game after two periods for a guitar rehearsal and missed a great 20 minutes of action as a result...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Skaters Come Out of Reading Period Sleep, Send Bruins Back In, 4-3, On Late Garrity Goal | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Center Bill Hozack did the honors, converting a Bill Horton pass into a goal at 5:44 to put Harvard in the thick of the important game. Brown's Skip Stovern thinned things out, temporarily, with a score at 13:03 to make...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Cagers Nip Fordham, But Icemen Lose to Brown | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...best of the color silk-screen paintings, like Retroactive I, 1964, are such soaring bel canto that one is apt to skip over the odd resonance of their images. Consider the red patch in the lower right corner: a silk-screen enlargement of a stroboscopic photo by Gjon Mili of a walking nude, done in imitation of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, which was itself based on an earlier sequential photo by Marey. The image stutters backward through technological time. But then it also looks like the grief-stricken Adam and Eve in Masaccio's Expulsion from Eden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Living Artist | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

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