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Perhaps best known until now for the score of Shaft, Isaac Hayes here follows Three Tough Guys with another lame shot at establishing some kind of on-camera identity for himself. The vehicle he has chosen is a numskull cops-and-robbers piece about a skip tracer (someone who hunts down bail jumpers). Hayes forsakes his rock-performing wardrobe of bare chest wrapped in chains to slop around Los Angeles in a variety of Levi outfits, glowering, guzzling cans of Coors and ferreting out various criminal types. He is called Truck because his methods usually carry a certain violent impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Semiskilled | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...JAMES TRACER 256 pages. Arthur Fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Snookered by Commissars | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

...blast through the walls, but the sniper shots kept coming. Finally, eleven hours after the violence had begun, one lone sniper darted under the glare of a helicopter spotlight, ran about 30 ft. in a zigzag pattern across the rooftop, and fell dead in a hail of police tracer bullets, his body riddled with more than 100 slugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death in New Orleans | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...told the Oakland computer to print out a program for plotting complex aerospace data in graph form. His company presumably planned to market the program, which was valued at $12,000 or more, to the Oakland firm's own customers. He was caught through a telephone company tracer and received a suspended sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMPUTERS: Key-Punch Crooks | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

...core, the American musical celebrates collective energy. The force that Fosse unleashes in Pippin is the spirit that flung railroads across a continent and raised skyscrapers to rake the heavens. At least that is the way you feel as you watch his dancers arc across the stage like tracer bullets. ∎T.E.Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Medieval Hippie | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

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