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ROCK'S NEW WAVE is a broad and diverse movement, encompassing all sorts of bizarre and seemingly apocalyptic visions. Listeners, in fact are often tempted to make comparisons to the Fall of Rome--in the time honored introductory Social Studies fashion--when confronted with the sight of a man being...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Punk Without Punks | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

Deathtrap is not the ingenious successor to Sleuth that Levin obviously wanted to write, but a desperate imitation of it. The same sorts of turn-arounds preponderate, and the playwright-protagonist, Sidney Bruhl (John Wood), as unscrupled as Wyke when it comes to murder, speaks in similarly sardonic conceits. But...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Death Throes | 2/2/1978 | See Source »

In the glory days of Empire, English art buyers plundered the riches of Italy, France and Greece. But since World War II, the down-at-heel British lion has been unable to compete with Americans, Japanese, and assorted European collectors in the all too open international art market. As a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Helping Britain Buy British | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

(2 of 11) contemporary culture, and Pentecostalists, who have experienced the "baptism in the Holy Spirit" and practice such divine "gifts" as speaking in tongues and miraculous healing by prayer. The latter include everything from Episcopalians to nearly a million Roman Catholics, to oddball healers and assorted tent preachers. Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to that Oldtime Religion | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

The latest blow has been the extraordinary success of the Walt Disney World theme park and entertainment center at Orlando, 240 miles to the north. The 27,400-acre complex, which opened in 1971, sports three Disney hotels, with an occupancy rate of about 97%, three golf courses and assorted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ebb Tide at Miami Beach | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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