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...purifying process, called Sonozone, practically eliminates that leftover pollution with a swift one-two punch. A small, vibrating metal disk at the bottom of a tank through which the sewage water flows sends out a steady stream of ultrasonic energy. At the same time, ozone, a highly active form of oxygen that readily combines with other materials, is bubbled into the tank from a nearby generator, which produces the gas by shooting electric arcs through ordinary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Silent Treatment | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

...your hands always be busy May your feet always be swift May you have a strong foundation When the winds of changes shift May your heart always be joyful May your song always be sung May you stay forever young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dylan: Once Again, It's Alright Ma | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...special effects-flying furniture, a levitation-are good. What else could be expected with such a budget? Von Sydow has a presence of unshadowed strength. Jason Miller (author of the Broadway play That Championship Season) makes a very impressive first film appearance with a performance full of swift undercurrents of psychic pain. Lin da Blair performs bravely as the tormented girl; the rasping voice of her demon is hauntingly dubbed (without screen credit) by Mercedes McCambridge. Ellen Burstyn, a good actress who is especially adept at portraying a beleaguered strength, is stuck here with an assignment that might once have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beat the Devil | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

Harvard started slowly, going ahead 2-0 in the first period on goals by Goodenow and Phelps Swift, and then lengthening the lead to 4-0 in the second stanza on scores by Dan Bolduc and McMohan. White the score board not working, the official timekeepers ruled that McMohan's tally came with one second left in the second period...

Author: By E.p. Eggert, | Title: Icemen Have It Rough Over Vacation | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...work was enormous. By 1770, the year of his death, he had by his own reckoning completed more than 1,000 paintings and some 10,000 drawings-ranging from elaborate pastels like the 1738 portrait of Boy Holding a Carrot (which some critics argue is actually a parsnip) to swift crayon jottings of the nude. Collectors snapped up both his drawings and his rapid oil sketches, such as the vigorous and almost romantic Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pink Is for Girls | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

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