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...following pages TIME presents the decade's memorable moments and fancied faces. The collection ranges from the triumph of the Bicentennial to the debacle of Saigon; from the grotesque suicides of Jonestown to the burlesgue success of Evil Knievel's Snake River plunge; and from the worst of Hearst to a terrific Tiegs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Look At The '70s: Epitaph for a Decade | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

This summer, Gauthier partially made up for lost time with his old coach, training a total of six hours a day by running, working out with weights, and swimming 15,000 meters. Monday morning workouts were especially taxing as the swimmers entered the snake-infested waters of Lake Tuscaloosa for a five-mile swim (about 84 minutes...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Jack Gauthier: | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

...Kitchen Man and The Right Key but the Wrong Keyhole, sex becomes an active verb. Thais Clark is an infectious comedian who can subtly saturate a blues like Muddy Water with haunting plaintiveness. By birth, Topsy Chapman was a 16th child. Here she's a No. 1 joymaker. Snake-hipped Vernel Bagneris keeps the company jumping at a blistering pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Steam Heat | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Serpentine moves like a snake on water, slithering from incident to crime, pausing just long enough to consider its prey. Thompson has done extensive research on his subject, and quotes liberally from other people's remembrances, letters and other documents. But he doesn't let the facts obscure the phenomenon. Admittedly Thompson goes overboard with the dramatics at times. He delights in ominous tag lines, affixed to long stretches of narrative. As Charles ponders life in a Dehli jail cell. Thompson writes about his future. He required "a country in which he was neither known nor wanted by police...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A Snake in the Asian Grass | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...simplicity with typical crypticness. He rhymes himself all the way through the song, so by the last verse you are easily guessing the next line--"Looked like there was nothing he couldn't pull...aaah, so he called him a bull." Then Dylan gets to the verse about a snake. You know its about a snake because the animal slithers through grass and rhymes with lake. But Dylan stops there--with an oblique reference to the Garden of Eden--and doesn't say the word "snake...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: The Gospel According to Bob | 9/26/1979 | See Source »

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