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Charlie Stallone, an independent owner-operator from Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (the sign on his T shirt reads SMOKE COLOMBIAN), explains: "Drivers smoke pot to unwind. You've been running ten hours through ice and snow. You're wired. You pull into a stop. They don't sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Georgia: Footnotes from a Trucker's Heaven | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

A Lem story can have the crushing gravity of a collapsing star. His sentences are frequently dense with logic and his points aphoristic: "The progress of human knowledge was a gradual renunciation of the simplicity of the world." Lem's own worlds are complex, twittering word machines ingeniously wired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Microchips and Men | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

The gas station attendant looked at us sort of funny when we drove up in the Jaguar Namo had hot-wired, and his eyebrows almost disappeared over the top of his forehead when Namo asked where in New England we were. I think the attendant must have tipped someone off...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Assault on Filene's Basement: A Christmas Fantasy | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

Of the few that have, many found their way in after an article on the tunnels appeared, complete with a detailed map identifying entrances. The rash of break-ins that followed prompted the Department of Building and Grounds, which maintains the tunnels, to establish a policy prohibiting the release of...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Harvard's Tunnels: Notes From The Underground | 10/19/1978 | See Source »

Then there are the familiar, likable actors: the recently-revived Dyan Cannon (better than ever these days) as Clouseau's tag-along; the smooth, stylishly resonant Robert Webber (also not around in the last few years and also better than ever) as the heavy; and Herbert Lom, in the best...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: PANTHER PUREE | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

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