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No one who has ever mixed with a San Francisco psychedelic-style concert crowd is likely to forget the experience. Going to see the Boz Scaggs, Grace Slick or Hot Tuna? Better take ear muffs and a flak jacket. Psychedelic rock crowds can be hostile collections of spacy Viet-vets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Faces in the Crowd | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

The break came Friday. Santiago, a city with a climate like Denver's and women like Paris', stretched out in the early spring sunshine like a cat cooped up too long in a closet. Thousands surged around the smoky ruins of La Moneda. People in their Sunday best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Coup: The View from the Carrera | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

Through his ingenious director, Frank Dunlop, and a fine ensemble of actors, Osborne has gone McLuhan and made the theater his message. Plot, structure, story-even that Osborne speciality, the long brilliant speech-all gone. Instead, we have half a dozen players on a sparse stage, and a "chairman," who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Audience as Victim | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

In pursuit of the suburban dream, Americans have precipitated one of the largest mass movements in history: during the past decade, the population of suburbia has grown by more than 15 million. According to the preliminary 1970 census reports, there are now 74.9 million people classified as suburbanites, a 25...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Suburbia: The New American Plurality | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

And here I was, standing next to a girl whose escort had just been thrown headlong through a swinging door, and who had come storming back in to receive a chair over his shoulders. I was champing on a medium-well hamburger, swilling beer out of a pitcher and roaring...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 10/21/1969 | See Source »

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