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...Watergate investigation, Sam Ervin is not trying to find out what White House aides may have told the President about some proper aspect of their official duties. He wants to know whether they took part in political ac tivities that may have been illegal or im proper or whether they know who did so. Yet Nixon has tried to ban any of his aides, even those no longer on his staff, from testifying before any con gressional committee. Last week the Washington Post revealed that Nixon's chief counsel, John W. Dean III, had cited this privilege to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Defying Nixon's Reach for Power | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...other moments he seems decid ed to be a true sorcerer or bust. "Power takes care of you," he says, "and you don't know how. Now I'm at the edge, and I have to change my whole format. Writing to get my Ph.D. was my ac complishment, my sorcery, and now I am at the apex of a cycle that includes the notoriety. But this is the last thing I will ever write about Don Juan. Now I am going to be a sorcerer for sure. Only my death could stop that." It is a ro mantic role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don Juan and the Sorcerer's Apprentice | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...entirely other affair. Jack must either exchange his rabid Christliness for an attitude more suited to his title and place, or the family, still intent on straight-jacketing Jack, will have its way. Jack's psychiatrist engineers his patient's conversion in a perfectly improbable scene (complete with an AC-DC electric God and none less than King Kong) and with this extravagant cinematic trump, the movie turns into a deadly serious affair...

Author: By Alice VAN Buren, | Title: The Mad Prince of Privilege | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

Magister atque sui quattuor discipuli narraverunt fabulam de Daimone, filio regis Herakleiae, qui peregrinatus est per mare Aegeum. Contra piratas ac serpentes maritimos pugnavit, et implicatus est cum deis, et centauris, et equis alatis. Case dixit: "Postremo erat magna disputatio de questione num Daimon deberet moriri in tempestate modo herois. Discipuli arguerunt Dai-monem dignum esse ut viveret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Daimon Omnia Vincit | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

...there are fleeting moments of perception, as when a manager carelessly tosses a pair of newly bloodied trunks to another fighter, or when Tully stands in front of the mirror trying on some seedy clothes belonging to his girl's former lover. Hus ton also apparently abandoned his ac tors. Keach looks far too intelligent for the part. Although he does many tech nical things splendidly, he lacks emo tional force. Bridges, who was fine in The Last Picture Show, is at loose ends here, and Actress Tyrell's grandstand histrionics turn a surefire part into a Raggedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Overweight | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

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