1970s

VOICE OF THE AGES

Up Close and Personal With the Rolling Stones

“Covering the tour is … a peculiar, alien sensation, as if you were visiting a planet where the female population had been decimated by an unnamed plague.”

by Karen Durbin

Originally published: June 23, 1975

The Black Panthers: Pictures at a Revolution

Outmanned and outgunned, the Panthers remained steadfast in their belief that Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness is the birthright of all Americans.

Originally published: September 21, 2016

Money and Art Marry: The Scull Auction at Sothebys

“Somehow the tincture of aesthetic bathes every big occasion in hypocrisy, as though a napalm salesman kept asking you to admire the color of the flames.”

by Alexander Cockburn

Originally published: October 25, 1973

VOICE OF THE AGES

Milton Glaser at the Voice – Short Time, Big Impact

In the mid-1970s, the design virtuoso brought the Voice's editorial look up to speed.

June 30, 2023

JOCKBEAT ARCHIVES

Ishmael Reed on Muhammad Ali

“I cannot go out a loser, Jack Johnson went out a loser. Sugar Ray went out a loser. Joe Louis went out a loser… I got to be that black man who gets out on top.”

by Ishmael Reed

Originally published: October 16, 1978

On the 100th Anniversary of Opening King Tut’s Tomb, All That Glitzes Is Still Not Gold

“The question is, why are all these personal treasures in New York, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, instead of with the sun god Ra?”

by Rosalyn Drexler

Originally published: December 12, 1978

THE FRONT ARCHIVES

Beautiful Butchers: The Shah Serves Up Caviar and Torture

“The social success of the Shah in the galaxy of international despots is the end result of a careful campaign, premised on two vital ingredients: snobbery and cash”

by Alexander Cockburn, James Ridgeway and Jan Albert

Originally published: November 14, 1977

Abbie Hoffman: God-fool of Conscience

“Hoffman is a patriot who has fought the Good Fight to waken his fellow Americans to the corruption of their own traditional ideals. Like Tom Paine, he is a classic example of philosophic and poetic dramatist of public Ideals”

by Allen Ginsberg

Originally published: October 11, 1973

Godfather, Part II: The Corleone Saga Sags

“The artiness of Coppola’s aesthetic ultimately becomes an ethic as Pacino, in somber profile, emerges more victim than villain, more a melancholy Dane than a bloody Macbeth.”

by Molly Haskell

Originally published: December 23, 1974

FEATURE ARCHIVES

Anatomy of a Rumor

“The rumor had Nixon plotting to use election-eve violence as an excuse for massive repression of students and blacks, mass arrests, and suspension of Constitutional guarantees to keep the dissenters behind bars... The rumor was really saying that a Reichstag fire was in the works.”

by Ron Rosenbaum

Originally published: November 5, 1970