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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hair. Milos Forman looks at the sixties through a rose- colored lens, sanitizing the anti-war movement into youthful anger with a utopian glow. Still the movie has more plot than the show ever did,, Twyla Tharp's choreography encourage some fancy swirling camera work, and the songs are still good. Compared to abysmal movie musicals like Grease, Hair shines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birds DeWitt, Bees DeWitt | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

...such a proposal politically unacceptable." His solution is simple: if the fight looks hopeless, don't think about it. But pages later he turns around and berates the American Gas Company for demanding that all references to "gas ovens" be removed from a program it sponsored about the Nuremberg war trials. At the end of the book, Cowan tells us "some may argue that television is too powerful a tool to be left to a process so crass and mindlessly competitive." But he concludes, "that is the commercial television system, and it isn't likely to change...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Gossip In Gory Detail | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

That old cliche about winning the war but losing the battle was reversed again for the women's track team, as they fell to a strong Springfield College team, 75-52, yesterday at Harvard Stadium despite setting nine new University records...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Thinclads Stumble, 75-52, In Tough Season Finale | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

Though Harvard lost the war, there were several satisfying performances as the last dual meet of the season saw four seniors break University records. Co-captain Sarah Linsley closed out her career by leading a Harvard sweep in the 1500 with a new record...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Thinclads Stumble, 75-52, In Tough Season Finale | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

What does a swastika mean? During World War II, it meant the mechanical annihilation of an entire race of human beings--an act motivated by the highest form of vanity. But on the t-shirt of Sid Vicious, who knows what it means? It is shocking, stomach-twisting, and if nothing else, it is some kind of self-glorification that Vicious and his followers need...the self-glorification he saw in old war documentaries when he was in grammar school, ripping out toilet seats during recess...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Street Symbolist Finds Her Ark | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

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