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Summitry has been in bad odor of late, criticized as a worthless exercise at best, or an outright danger at worst. But in an era of increasing global interdependence, the ritual gathering of government leaders serves one unquestionably valuable purpose: it enables them to take one another's measure at first hand, to size up their fellow leaders' abilities and weaknesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: A Socko Performance at the Summit | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...synapses no pauses no breaks no punctuation whatsoever because that makes it easier to write and makes it harder to read but who cares and there is less chance that an entire sentence can be blown off in the shop blown off in the shop my is that totally worthless totally inside joke getting tired just like me and just like the guy in Network did you see that over vacation bubby the Atlanta Rhythm Section with Journey and Starcastle at the Orpheum on April 10 at 8 pm did you catch that it was the first listing...

Author: By Read HARRYS Column, | Title: ROCK | 4/14/1977 | See Source »

...sign painter and square dance fiddler to keep his family from starving to death. Pampa is an oilboom town gone bust, a grim, Depressionera morning-after the gala twenties, when the oilmen and farmers came in droves. Now the money and water are gone, the land parched and worthless. All that's left is the dust--huge, billowing black clouds of destruction and death rumbling across the prairie. Production designer Michael Haller's re-creation of a Pampa dust-storm stunningly conveys the awesome power that often terrorized the dust bowl's inhabitants. When Woody sings in "The Great Dust...

Author: By Andrew T. Karron, | Title: Dust Bowl Refugee | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

Uganda, in short, would be stone broke if it did not receive occasional Arab aid. The currency notes, all of which bear Amin's bejowled and bemedaled portrait, have always been worthless outside the country and now count for nothing inside because people do not want them. Instead, they would rather have scarce butter or a slab of meat or a bottle of waragi, a potent, banana-base liquor. Money is worthless because there is so little to buy with it. The rare visitor from Kenya who brings in Kenya currency, and risks arrest or worse in so doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Amin:The Wild Man of Africa | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...reflecting upon a society with uncritical, unspeculative, and unanalytical mind; that some of them are "unintelligible in the dark" on account of the fact that they are communicated through signs and gestures having little resemblance to languages; that they do not have proper grammar and syntax; that it is worthless to study them since they are fast disappearing being replaced by English and French; that there exists "no civilized nation of any other complexion than white," and the like...

Author: By Ephraim Issacs, | Title: The Case For Academic Fairness | 2/22/1977 | See Source »

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