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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Studies by our psychiatric staff in laboratories miles apart indicate that these lyrics, taken from the album Fear of Music by Talking Heads, foster feelings of paranoia, confusion and even suicidal tendencies among the teens who listen to it. Furthermore, the snarling, guttural singing style of the group's lead singer--Mr. David Byrne--along with the hypnotic, repetitious, electronically treated music the group provides, could provoke listeners with extant mental imbalances to acts of violent destruction. The same group, in fact, performed a song called "Psycho Killer" on an earlier album...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

John Galloway, subcommittee staff director, said Texaco's promise was "misleading" because it only covers the rest of this year--before the heaviest part of the heating season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oil Firms Testify | 9/18/1979 | See Source »

...Allan Bakke became the Surgeon General, Muhammad Ali was named Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and John-John Kennedy took over the Tonight show ("Heeeeeeeere's Johnny-Johnny!"). The bankrupt Ivy League colleges announced they would sell expansion franchises. Children won the right to divorce their parents and cruised "singlekids' bars" trying to find new ones; Hollywood capitalized on the trend with a smash-hit movie, Looking for Mr. and Mrs. Goodbar. Food shortages put the Fat Look in vogue, and fashion-conscious women draped themselves in Sheetrock, paper lamb-chop collars and plastic garbage bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: These Are the Good Old Days | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...this sounds like the kind of smart-alecky prognostication one might hear on a slow night at Elaine's - well, it is. The celebrity-studded staff of last fall's hit parody Not the New York Times is back, this time with a send-up of tomorrow's news, The 80s: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade 1980-1989. Due out next month, the 288-page, large-format book (Workman Publishing; $14.95; paperback $6.95) offers a fantastical but not utterly implausible history of "hot years, cold years, big years, little years, sweet years, sour years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: These Are the Good Old Days | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...York City was poorer until last spring when a group of business leaders formed a commission that aims for an annual budget of $500,000 and a professional staff of about ten. The group's first target is violent street crime, which has hurt the city's economy by scaring off business. The new group hopes to help New York in coordinating its disparate criminal justice agencies. City officials are taking a wait-and-see attitude for now, but with 1,550 murders, 3,500 rapes, 76,000 robberies, and 161,000 burglaries annually, not to mention unreported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Crime Stoppers | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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