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They came up with a flashy-looking five-passenger convertible, a real jazzy-looking machine . . . They told me it would go 400 miles on one tank of water and they had a flash-firing system worked out where they could get up steam in less than half a minute ... I asked them how they solved the water problem and Burns said to me, "Well, we just made the whole body one big radiator, full of tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Hughes Super-Steamer | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...Caravan theatre preaches well; the use of flash-back and rhythm punctuate Brecht's main points. The Caravan even does us the dubious favor of placing Brecht's play in contemporary perspective; the performance begins with a "prologue by an actor," setting our own world's good guys against the bad, showing the present relevance of Brecht's rule. (Penn-Central executives get light jail terms for stealing thousands; George Jackson gets killed for stealing seventy dollars). The Caravan performance is only adequate; Aili Singer as Langmann is vicious, and with precise line readings and movement completely dominates the stage...

Author: By Kenneth G. Bartels, | Title: The Exception and the Rule | 2/10/1972 | See Source »

...your assorted band of string-alongers including Klaus Voorman, Claudia Linnear, Carl Raddle, et al. The bad boys of rock, the Rolling Stones, still haven't developed a social conscience and didn't send a representative. However, they were there in spirit when the Benefit band performed "Jumpin Jack Flash...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii, | Title: The Concert for Bangla Desh | 1/11/1972 | See Source »

Thus we must wait until Side Four, when Leon Russell takes over, before we get any innovation. He leads the band in a version of "Jumpin Jack Flash" that manages to do the impossible--capture the intensity of the Stone's original and depending on what mood you're in, surpasses...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii, | Title: The Concert for Bangla Desh | 1/11/1972 | See Source »

...Gentlemen," said the briefing officer, "I have to tell you that this is not a practice blackout. It is the real thing. We have just had a flash that the Pakistan air force has attacked our airfields at Amritsar, Pathankot and Srinagar. This is a blatant attack on India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: India and Pakistan: Over the Edge | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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