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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected that the hype should focus on the strangest, most saleable aspects of a group like Devo. Unfortunately, in this case the result exaggerates Devo's worst side--the monotony and formulization that creeps into some of their songs that are less inspired than "Jocko Homo...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Nothing Like Nihilism | 11/28/1978 | See Source »

...strangest remodeling jobs undertaken by the U.S. Navy. Inside the aging repair ship U.S.S. Vulcan, anchored at Norfolk, Va., aluminum sheeting is being stretched from floor to ceiling to divide the sleeping quarters. Near by, urinals are being ripped out, while extra electrical outlets are being provided for hair dryers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Women May Yet Save The Army | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...began in traditional fashion last week the strangest session of the House committee's hearings on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The President And the Capo | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...beyond doubt, the year's strangest love match. This week in Moscow, Christina Onassis, 27, heir to her late father Aristotle's $500 million shipping, financial and industrial empire, is set to marry a Soviet citizen and Communist Party member who, say U.S. intelligence sources, may have KGB connections. What is more, she apparently intends to make her home in the Soviet capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES: The Heiress and Her Comrade | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...ministers "a range of exhausted volcanoes." In the past couple of years, Watergate and its players have seemed similarly defunct: the political passions of the scandals expired, parole boards and literary agents tidying up like janitors, attending to the last details. And now, again, Nixon reappears, one of the strangest, loneliest, most complicated and interesting political figures in American history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Sightings of the Last New Nixon | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

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