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...candy canes, crowd. An elderly lady, hunched over her shopping another part of the Square. "We're gonna break people standing in the Square would shout. "Don't bags, looked up at the Santa and then said, "It's your ass just like your buddy!" a less than sober give him anything, he's a phony! He's a Hare fone of those Krishnas, Shit." A man shuffled up to spectator shouted. The Krishna seemed to get a bit Krishna!" The Santa didn't hesitate to identify the Santa and asked him for a buck for "a cup of ruffled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hare Christmas | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

People who live in times of rapidly rising prices shouldn't throw stones. New Yorker Patrick McCarthy, 58, knows that when he is sober. But when he has a tipple or two, he tends to have an urge to toss a rock through a window and then waits patiently to be arrested. In 26 years he has broken at least 44 panes and, as a result, has spent about ten years in jail on misdemeanor charges. Neither psychiatrists nor specialists at a federal alcoholism center have been able to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Costly Breaks | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Times readers, beneft of its acres of information and its sober ruminations, haven't got much help from the return to publication of Rupert Murdoch's go-it-alone New York Post, which is crammed with ads, some news, and a lot of sell-promotion. Murdoch is too commercially astute to try to fill the gap left by the Times (he couldn't anyway). Instead, while he has the spotlight he has been trying to start up a new Sunday paper and a salty new morning tabloid to compete against the New York Daily News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Without Newspapers, Less Happens | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Woody Allen" genre of films or simply a middle-aged change-of-life crisis--Allen is playing with no less than his career. So if the weight of the world hung over Allen when he wrote and directed Interiors, it shows in the film. Interiors is very, very sober: the story chronicles a family's trials and collapse, and the script is filled with heavy dialogue. The father, played by a stalwart but silent E.G. Marshall, severs ties with his compulsive interior decorator-wife (Geraldine Page), breaking up a family that never seemed to be very close. Two daughters--Joey...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Woody Allen's Other Side | 10/31/1978 | See Source »

...aides thought that would be inappropriate; they wanted Carter to appear as businesslike as possible for the occasion and to address the viewers from behind his desk in the Oval Office. "It's not going to be very chatty," said an aide. "It is going to be a sober, realistic appraisal of where we stand and what we need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: With All Five Fingers | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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