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Even the most laid-back easy rocker would find it tough to resist his live performance. Small, tightly muscled, the voice a chopped-and-channeled rasp, Springsteen has the wild onstage energy of a pinball rebounding off invisible flippers, caroming down the alley past traps and penalties, dead center for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Backstreet Phantom of Rock | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

The play traps its four characters on a Greyhound bus. and each character is leaving behind a forgettable past, while moving toward some future just as bleak. This kind of atmosphere doesn't exactly lend itself to dramatic action; the play is more a series of monologues spliced onto each...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Bad Trip | 10/25/1975 | See Source »

Though it was scarcely intended to be an aid to urban protesters, CB may be the fastest-growing communications medium since the Bell telephone. Used largely as a plaything after its introduction in the 1950s, it first invaded the air waves in force during the 1973 oil embargo, when speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Drivers' Network | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

Miniature Golf, inexplicably referred to as "putt-putt" by southerners, is a summer evening's ecstasy. Unlike regular fairway golf, which Mark Twain called "a long walk spoiled," miniature golf is a short stroll enhanced. The most enhancing stroll enhanced. The most enhancing spot around for this activity lies on...

Author: By Richard Tumer, | Title: MISCELLANY | 7/18/1975 | See Source »

Debbie Reynolds was the madcap of the '50s, a slip of a colleen with a heart-shaped face. Her daughter Carrie Fisher, 18, is the madcap of the '70s, a dourly funny sophisticate. Debbie's big hit movie was the innocuous Tammy and the Bachelor, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Not Exactly Like Mom | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

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