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After his WCAS interview, Tsongas stepped into the offices of the Acupuncture Center of Cambridge, located in the same building. At that time he asked one of the employees whether they could cure "political pains." Perhaps Tsongas would be wise to return now and find out if they...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: Fighting to Make a Name for Himself | 8/1/1978 | See Source »

...middle-aged Irishman bids his father's ghost adieu, but the ghost kicks up his heels in witty, wise and mischievous ways. A medal should be struck for every member of a marvelous cast headed by Barnard Hughes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bumper Crop | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...Fidel Castro's Cuba, Ian Smith's Rhodesia and Idi Amin's Uganda -often with mixed results and doubtful gains. Last week the U.S. once more waved its trade cudgel, this time against the Soviet Union. And again the move sparked debate over whether it is wise and whether it will work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy & Business: Squeeze on the Soviets | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

These worldly wise immigrants do not necessarily share what Novelist Saul Bellow called the "kiss-the-ground-at-Ellis-Island attitude." Many are the shards and barbs on the road to becoming American. U.S. television is a big turn-off for Europeans. So, at least initially, are permissive child rearing, much so-called gourmet food, gun-toting cops, blah-blah cocktail parties, football and baseball, bubble gum, littered streets, first-naming on first encounter, and such other indue -ers of culture shock as the warning on a hotel dressing table that greeted one European couple on their first night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Enter the Entrepreneurs | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...strikes his most attractive pose. The song captures that wild feeling of America at night, the America of Thomas Wolfe and Jack Kerouac. The lean background vocals, snappy rhythm and fine lyrics about two-bit criminals and their women ("Her father emphasized, you got to be more than street-wise") work together to make "Where Are You Tonight?" perhaps the most polished song Dylan has written since Tangled up in Blue...

Author: By Payne L. Templeton, | Title: An "Entertainer"? | 7/21/1978 | See Source »

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