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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the looters of New York City can never be excused for their wanton destruction of personal property, we find the tyrannical actions of the Marquette Park racists and the Nazis of Chicago's South Side to be far more heinous. We would rather walk among the looters of human possessions in total darkness than the pillagers of human rights in the brightest sunshine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1977 | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

Viewer protection, for example, explains the shape of San Francisco's Embarcadero Fountain, designed by Canadian Sculptor Armand Vaillancourt. Its writhing concrete contours have been described as "Stonehenge unhinged with plumbing troubles," but the fountain splashes no passerby. It is, however, laced with "lily pad" walks that offer a spray-drenched way, daring visitors to walk beneath its eccentric geometry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Shaping Water into Art | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...spell out more clearly the vision he has for America, says the pollster, to show that he can actually improve the lives of the people. Caddell no doubt will soon have a memo on all this for the President to study. But right now there are beaches to walk and boats to mess with and boiled lobsters to savor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Nothing Wrong with Normalcy | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

Still, what seems mellow to Silverman would send most people rushing for the Valium, and Freddie cannot walk past a TV set without stopping. Like Captain Caveman, everything he sees he devours, and nearly everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man with the Golden Gut | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...cheap by Film Consortium of Canada Inc., does the job well. Hollis McLaren is winsomely demented. When Actor Russell puts on his show, the masquerades are expert and funny enough to let straights see the bent world in a way that will not threaten most of them. Normal householders walk out of the theater snuffling happily after his exit line. Liza, who has fled to Manhattan following the stillbirth, is acting like a zombie. She says she is dead in side. "You are not dead!" says Robin, as the music rises. "You're alive and sick and living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Drag That Barge | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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