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...cameramen, technicians. "You're going to lie there like a piece of meat while they adjust the lighting. We can't use a double; the skin colors would be wrong. And some camera guy is going to run a tape measure down from his lens to your ass?zip!?to get his focus right. Can you work with that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Death and La - De - Dah | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...armorer" keeps the weapons functioning in a safe place such as an abandoned building or a girl friend's apartment. Even automatic and semiautomatic firearms-like M-16s and M-15s-can be bought or stolen. Also available for bigger bashes are hand grenades many decibels above the zip guns of the old days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Cripplers In The War Zone | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...more a frame of mind than a fashion, a zip code rather than a style. Yet the new look from California-it might be called the Pacific Overture-is swiveling eyes and stoking department-store sales from coast to coast. So far this year, the young California Contemporary Fashion Guild, representing 32 West Coast designers, has rung up about $40 million in sales; in 1976 the group grossed $100 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Unbuckled Sunbelt Look | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...shifting moods −from euphoria to uncertainty and for a time despair−the stock market seems to have come full circle. As 1976 draws to an end, traders are once more looking ahead with rising confidence, buoyed by a growing conviction that President-elect Jimmy Carter can put zip into the lagging economy. Before the election, Wall Street nervously regarded the Democratic candidate as a big-spending populist, but it has been won over in recent weeks by Carter's appointment of political moderates to top Administration posts. Says Reynolds Securities, Inc. Vice President Robert Stovall: "'There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Faith Flowers Again on Wall Street | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

Comic strip is one of the terms critics have used for the Ken Kesey counter-culture novel that inspired One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest. Big Nurse, Billy Bibbet, Randell McMurphy--zip, zam, zowee-am, swoosh, but with a heavy psycho-social punch packed behind it all. Yet the first shots of Milos Forman's movie--grainy, solemn, self-consciously non-colorful--make clear that this Cuckoo will not foist off a super-super allegory of a nut-fram, but a real Oregon mental hospital, in all its disturbing bleakness and isolation. This interpretive risk pays off, and, except...

Author: By Alyson Dewitt, | Title: FILM | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

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