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...waited with genial impatience last week for the start of the Southern 500, a classic stock-car event. They barely noticed the tall, lean man whose neat blue and white seersucker suit contrasted sharply with the bib overalls, T shirts and baseball caps in the crowd. Then the stranger in town stepped up onto the platform erected temporarily on the edge of the track, approached the microphone, and desperately tried to create an instant rapport with his audience. "I'm more of a stock-car fan today than I was yesterday," shouted Senator Robert Dole, the Republican vice-presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Dole: The Caustic Comedian | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...Dolores, Susann (2) 3-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (4) 4-The Lonely Lady, Robbins (3) 5-The Deep, Benchley(5) 6-Ordinary People, Guest (7) 7-Crowned Heads, Tryon (6) 8-A God Against the Gods, Drury (TO) 9-The Pride of the Peacock, Holt 10-A Stranger in the Mirror,Sheldon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...small wiry man with an intense stare and a manic thirst for promotion, Christo, 41, is no stranger to large projects. He first came to the art world's attention in the late '50s and early '60s by swathing all manner of objects-chairs, trees, cars, women, motorcycles and, in 1968 at "Documenta" in Kassel, West Germany, a 280-ft. column of air-with rope, canvas and sheet plastic. If this all amounted to little more than a series of energetic variations on Man Ray's 1920 Enigma of Isidore Ducasse (a sewing machine wrapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Christo: Plain and Fency | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...Stranger in the Mirror, Sheldon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...Trinity, Uris (1 last week) 2-Dolores, Susann (2) 3-TheLonely Lady, Robbins (3) 4-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (4) 5-The Deep,Benchley (6) 6-Crowned Heads, Tryon (5) 7-1876, Vidal (7) 8-Ordinary People, Guest (9) 9-The Fancy Dancer, Warren 10-A Stranger in the Mirror, Sheldon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

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