“Listen to that!” exclaims Steve Wonder. “I should tape it.” The blind singer’s amazingly acute ears have picked up a telephone conversation across the room where a friend is telling…
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Original Publication – Newsweek, August 26, 1974 Death Wish is the film to see if you’ve just been raped, mugged, or ripped off. The most controversial movie since “The Exorcist,” it…
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Original Publication – Newsweek, August 5, 1974 Alison Lurie likes to read case histories of deviants – “You know, the nuts-and-sluts school that’s no longer fashionable. I like to know…
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Original Publication: Newsweek, March 18, 1974. Glasgow-born singer Maggie Bell looks more like a red-hot mama than a wee bonnie lass. Nobody watching her belt out the blues would guess…
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Original Publication: Newsweek, March 4, 1974 Once they glittered from the silver screen, a legendary galaxy of female stars. Theda Bara and Garbo and Dietrich matched any male star in popularity:…
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Original Publication: Newsweek, January 28, 1974 Shoulder hunched, eyes flickering and glowering, it’s none other than Richard Nixon on the nightclub stage. “They say I should have foreseen the energy…
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