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...feel like telling someone who's bothering me, 'You know, I could blow your ass away.' I walk away ... What the hell am I doing here? I don't think we lost. Am I weak? What did I do wrong? I did my job ... The concrete we laid, the jungle we cleared! What happened to the South Vietnamese who fought with us? ... A month ago, I was going to commit suicide. It's hard for me not to think of blowing people away. I'm afraid of going back to work. I'm afraid of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Forgotten Warriors | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...alike. The producers let Hack go but turned once again to New York City for a solution. This time, after having some 100 actresses read for the part, they hired Tanya Roberts, an off-Broadway hopeful whom the publicity handouts described as "streetwise." Said she: "I'm going to bust my ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Farewell to a Phenomenon | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

...unaffiliate. Flags snap in the gusts--bright red banners for members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, who also carry posters bearing the face of Chairman Bob Avakian. They lockstep around the park, a march within a march. chanting "You Can Take This War and Shove It Up Your Ass, I'm Going to Fight for the Working Class." The wind spins the noise around in circles--without moving, you can hear the cries of the yellow-flag Youth Against War and Fascism. "1,2,3,4, We Don't Want Your Fucking...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Revolution Number Ten | 4/3/1980 | See Source »

...author's prejudices. Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese could be wonderfully readable ("I don't deal in direct quotations," explained Talese, "I'm into what people think"). Meanwhile, Esquire's black-humor covers became intentionally outrageous, such as posing a benign Lieut. William Calley with a group of Asian children. The magazine's basic outlook, said Harold Hayes, one of its best editors, was to be "smart-ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Stuck with a Magazine's Genes | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...that one has to cover one's own ass. The year of the students' arrival--1975--has been remembered by administrators and undergraduate advisers as one of the peak years of pre-professionalism, the New Mood on Campus, the swing back away from the upset and disillusionment of the period remembered as "the Sixties" but more properly identified as the late '60s and early '70s. (1961, after all, was the year of the Latin Riots at Harvard, when students marched, chanting "Latin Si! Pusey No!", to protest then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28's decision to grant degrees in English...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Ten Years After the Strike | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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