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...like 1974. Yale comes to The Stadium a game up on the Crimson seeking to nail down a championship, except that this time it's only a slice of a championship courtesy of a team from Providence...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Pennsylvania Turnovers Recharge Crimson, 20-8 | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...complications and sexual entanglements all represent exaggerations of the vicissitudes of life on the other side of the screen. Parodying parody is a difficult business at best, and why bother when you can go parody one up and deliver instead what the New York Times Magazine called "the ultimate slice of life...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: The Wanton Wind | 10/13/1976 | See Source »

...stifling newcomers to the lucrative communications markets of the future. Those potential billion-dollar markets are in such areas as facsimile communication, satellite transmission and computers that "talk" to each other over great distances. With its bill, the telephone establishment wants a guarantee that it will have the biggest slice of the action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: A Bill for Ma Bell | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

Many readers now expect their slice of life to be served up with a side order of irony or existential razzmatazz.They will not find it in The Easter Parade. Yates does not condescend to his heroines; he refuses to strike attitudes about their failures or mock their limitations. "I'm almost 50 years old," Emily says at the end, "and I've never understood anything in my whole life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Two Sisters | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...countries. The British have several demands, including rights to add new U.S. cities, notably Atlanta and Houston, to the ones that British Airways now serves -New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and Miami. Most important, the British want to be given, by bureaucratic fiat, a bigger slice of the scheduled air traffic between the U.S. and Britain-a route that will be flown by some 1.8 million passengers paying $500 million this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: War Over the Atlantic | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

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