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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manchu courtier. Backhouse claimed to have found this trove of gossip and intelligence in its author's house during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. The diary became the jewel of the Oxford collection; scholars may have debated its authenticity, but hardly a soul dared suggest that Backhouse himself had written it. Now Trevor-Roper, revealing for the first time the backdrop of quiet scandals that made up Backhouse's life, concludes that the Sinologist was one of the greatest forgers of all time. His memoirs too were made of whole cloth, the lubricious dreams of a suppressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Con Mandarin | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...emphasis on his once-anarchistic style. Collaborating with David Bowie (a close friend whom he accompanied on Bowie's 1975 American tour), Iggy has produced The Idiot, an album that blends the monotonic deadpan style of punk rock with electronic innovation. The same persona haunts this recording--an alienated soul tormented by nightmares and melancholy, ears buzzing with the constant drone of sameness--but the addition of Bowie as the chief composer gives this desolate voice a richer resonance...

Author: By Johanna T. Defenderfer, | Title: Iggy Meets Ziggy | 5/6/1977 | See Source »

...should-be beaten into schoolchildren. Despite psychiatric evidence that the practice is harmful and ineffective, advocates of the paddle see it as a simple instrument of law and order, and some of them swear by Proverbs 23: 14 -"Thou shall beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell." Where local laws and customs do not prohibit paddling, misbehaving students will continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Court: Don't Spare the Rod | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...first instance we are asked to believe that when the soul of a little girl named Audrey Rose departed her body as the result of an auto accident, it hopped over to the delivery room of a New York hospital, there to take up residence in a child named Ivy Templeton (Susan Swift). She grows into an ordinary child-except that she has awful nightmares. And then, of course, there is this odd man who keeps following her around. If only he were a run-of-the-sidewalk pervert; for Humbert Humbert, after all, there are practical remedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Reincarnation: The Audrey Seed | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Jungle wallpaper has transformed the kitchen into an ersatz fern grotto. The bedroom is nothing less than rococo. The spirit of Mardi Gras inhabits the game room. But the soul of Malibu's newest $800,000 mansion lies in its bathroom. "I thought it only appropriate to cover the walls with rocks," smiles The Who's millionaire drummer, Keith Moon, 30. "The house does belong to a rock star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hanging Out with the L.A. Rockers | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

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