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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cops tried to talk them into going home. One was asked by a teenies where Bobby was staying. The cop responded that he was at the Sheraton-with 22 policemen. What was a girl to do? One particularly young one gave the cop a napkin and asked him to wipe it on part of the stage where Bobby had walked. He did and returned it to the grateful girl. I wondered how many die-hard fans of this genre had crowded close to the stage and popped especially heady pimples so that Bobby might walk on the fluid with...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Clearasil's Man of the Year: Bobby Baby | 10/30/1970 | See Source »

Mortification Process. To Wolfensberger, normalization can do as much for the mentally ill as for the retarded. It will integrate the patient into society, at least as far as his illness permits, and wipe out or minimize the "subcultures of deviancy" that develop in institutions. To achieve that goal, Wolfensberger advocates specific changes in treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Is Basket Weaving Harmful? | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...sing, teach him to dance." "He'll never dance," Mama told Charlie firmly. "Just fix the diction." Charlie ignored her ("We do that") and put Elliott through the regular Lowe routine. "That meant everything," Gould recalled to TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin, "Blow-your-nose lessons, dance lessons, wipe yourself lessons, masturbation lessons, bunko. Compulsions for a dissatisfied mother. Why did I go? Because I loved my mother a lot. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Elliott Gould: The Urban Don Quixote | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

...criticism obscure, as in the case of Eighteen Texts, a book recently published in Athens. Though Greece is not specifically mentioned, it is plainly the subject. The opening contribution, a poem by Nobel Prizewinner George Seferis, recounts an old Cypriot tale in which a bunch of cats (read colonels) wipe out an invasion of snakes (read Communists), only to wind up poisoned by snake venom. A second story alludes to a remark of Premier Papadopoulos that contemporary Greece is like a patient in a plaster cast, which will be removed only when the patient is politically cured. In the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: Slight Relaxation | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...Christ's sake, Howard, get off my back." Stein and Hardy are now con spiring to persuade women employees to wear pantsuits in the office to fight the onslaught of the midi. Hardy's next plan is to wipe out neckties at the Drey fus headquarters. "By fall," he says, "we'll be wearing turtleneck sweaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Change and Turmoil on Wall Street | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

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