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...shrewd commercial ploy, McDonald's had agreed to give every ticket-stub holder a hamburger, an order of French fries and a Coke if Indiana held any opponent to fewer than 50 points during a basketball game in Bloomington. In the three hours after the contest, the two McDonald's served up 5,760 free meals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Hungry for Victory | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...history of 20th century European art, is fundamentally foreign to the individualistic tradition in the United States." No effort, no matter how brusque, could make a Yankee-myth existential art hero of this methodical sexagenarian, enacting his work ethic in a studio organized down to the last pencil stub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Superb Puritan | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...problem with staging Kafka is that Kafka's realism is a tactile, not a visual one. K. is a faceless man in a Janus-faced world where you stub your toe on invisible rocks and hang your head against undetectable walls. It is a universe of paradox, people by bureaucrats, Chinese emperors and courts of law: all of which may or may not be mythical depending on whether you subscribe to them or not. To translate this state of affairs into performable drama is a challenge that Sanders and in some spots the Ensemble have barely missed meeting...

Author: By Alice C. Van buren, | Title: Kafka Staged | 1/15/1974 | See Source »

Watch out for the Register-Yearbok application stub. Don't check the box or send a check that covers the purchase of both. You probably will want a copy of the Register (with your picture in it, of course) to check up on where the kid you met at the Union yesterday is from. But for about a decade. Crimson reviewers have panned the Yearbook, and the one you'll get will be abridged anyway--without the pictures of graduating seniors whom you may meet your first year. Many freshmen purchase both, not knowing what the Yearbook is: a bunch...

Author: By Robin Freedberg, | Title: Watch It! They'll Take Your Money and Run | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...remarks, in a line straight out of Laugh-In. Hitler's doctor appears; he describes how he has come to suspect a link between smoking and lung cancer. "Disgusting," the patient snaps. Nobody is at ease with him. Goebbels, rigidly clasping an umbrella pole, hastily jettisons a cigarette stub when Hitler appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Hitler Revival: Myth v.Truth | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

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