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Paul Newman grabs hold of a young girl just as the stairway she is standing on springs open and collapses away into infinity; a firefighter hangs on to the shell of an elevator as a helicopter lowers it ninety stories. One is perfectly helpless in the grasp of scenes like these...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Burn, Baby, Burn | 5/15/1975 | See Source »

...members of the office staff and one Harvard policeman stood is front of the stairway that led to the office where the Marine recruiters were holding interviews with undergraduates...

Author: By David A. Copithorne, | Title: Twenty Demonstrators Protest Presence of Marine Recruiters | 3/1/1975 | See Source »

...Chaliapin, Kipnis or even Pinza but compensates with its oval warmth and human shadings. One never doubts that this Boris can be compassionate, a killer or mad. Accomplished without any personal padding of garment or rubberizing of the steps, Talvela's death-throes roll down the stairway from the throne has shocking impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boris at the Met, At Last | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...left with a black floor-length cape covering an enticingly sheer body-stocking with silver boots and silver plates, discreetly covering a minimal portion of her body. A huge white plume crowned her head. She and Sarah lifted their eyes upward as Patti Labelle appeared atop a 20-foot stairway in center stage, wearing a cape and train profusely ornamented with orange and black feathers, reiterating the program's theme and title of the group's latest LP recording with Epic, "Nightbirds...

Author: By Bruce Cole, | Title: Rock-Bottom Funk | 12/10/1974 | See Source »

...move. Last week she and her boyfriend Gardner Britt, 17, the son of a Ford auto dealer in Virginia, brought her belongings to the White House and installed her two dozen potted plants in the third-floor solarium. For their dating, "I'm looking for a back stairway for Gardner, so he won't have to go through all that stuff," Susan says. After surveying the mansion, Susan picked a suite on the third floor and asked that it be repainted yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Chatting with Betty and Susan | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

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