Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week-a misplaced sentence, a missing picture caption, an inexplicably overlong story-everyone knows that the man to see is Boyd. He can locate the sentence, rewrite the caption -even, it sometimes seems, mysteriously enlarge or shrink a page. As usual, Boyd was working round the clock till he discharged his last duty late on Saturday: sending instructions to the Chicago printers for each of TIME'S eight international editions. It seemed to be a normal TIME closing last week, but it was the end of an era because Bob Boyd was retiring after 38 years at TIME...
...Horse Dreamer. Sam Shepard's surrealistic vision of America, about a boy who predicts the outcomes of horse races in his sleep; the dreamer is abducted by a gambling syndicate, of course, and is finally taught to foretell greyhound races. Sounds fairly bizarre. At 367 Boylston St., Wed.-Sat. till...
Judgement. American premier at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass Ave. Thurs.-Fri. at 8 p.m. till...
After forty-five pictures he tiptoes down-stairs and crouches at the end of the hall, opposite Caldwell, trying for a final shot. She has stopped conducting and is listening to the singers. She gazes around the hall till her eyes meet Rick's and rest in a lethargic stare. He is frozen like a squirrel near a human but he doesn't shoot. He is waiting for her to perform again. After five minutes he gives up and walks out--he can't be late for his next assignment...
Some samples from this month's preview edition include a nice tribute to the late Phil Ochs by Jerry Rubin, A Kirkpatrick Sale piece reminding readers that Howard Hughes made most of his money in the public till, and a poem by Allen Ginsberg. So much for big names: the rest of the articles are,--by and large,--good, solid stories written by a smattering of working reporters from around the country and the world...