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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government that will play their tune. This is what I call the law of Moses. Carrington is the type of man who believes he can make no mistakes; he can only deal with the Muzorewas who love that treatment. If we get into the second phase with that sort of attitude, then I'm afraid we're in for a real hard time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Nkomo: We Are Not Villains | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Bass Player John McVie and Drummer Mick Fleetwood provide sonic propulsion as Buckingham's melodies range widely and easily between old English folk and avant-garde pop. The sound sometimes flirts with the sort of revisions of Eng lish folk idiom that Fairport Convention used to bring off with such foursquare inspiration, and sometimes, as in the title cut, skirts the sonic experiments conducted by Lennon and McCartney on songs like Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Monster Season | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

There are a trifle too many Chekhovian tableaux artily arranged by Director Tony Giordano - these are distinctly not those "sisters" - but Ladyhouse Blues is the sort of play Chekhov might have liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Life with Ma | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...sort of thing you expect by now in a Woody Allen flick. Allen is sitting in this restaurant in Manhattan, see, when up walks a kid with big eyes and braces who looks just like Allen might have at 13. "Hello," says the kid. "Can I have your autograph?" Allen writes, not his name, but a note: "Hi. I'm casting for my new major motion picture. Would you like to come for a screen test?" Naturally the kid passes the test, gets a part and grows up to become a big movie star. Except that Anthony DePaola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 29, 1979 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Boggling figures of that sort have been popular as curiosities ever since Archimedes tried to calculate how many grains of sand the universe could contain (1051, he said). Today, however, mind-walloping numbers are no longer oddities; they are the stuffing of ordinary news and public discourse. While even the biggest figures no doubt possess meaning, it is impossible not to suspect that many casually circulated numbers might as well be the music of the spheres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Getting Dizzy by the Numbers | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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