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...about the enemies of love, without and within. Chris loses sleep, then appetite, finally ardor. Convinced that "some dark thing was overtaking him," he buys a rifle and lugs it everywhere. As the child within her grows, Ellen retreats to her own childhood, resurrecting the toys in the lodge attic. Seeking reassurance, the pair try the ritual of childhood games-Parcheesi, Chinese checkers-then break off even this relationship. Chris teaches Ellen to shoot. At last all they share is the gun, as if the final game were to be a game of kill. More and more, the birth they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Canker in the Rose | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...Buck (Jon Voight) is a strutting phallus, good, he admits, for nothin' but lovin'. His muscles are like his mind, heavy and ornamental. His eyes are like attic windows, blank and blue, opening onto a pile of dusty junk. The son and grandson of prostitutes, Joe flees the loveless desolation of his Tex as home and heads for Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Improbable Love Story | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...women at the Institute are different from the rest of us Cliffies since they have stuck it out. We don't know if we will. Within a few years, we may store our books in the attic and start studying china patterns. The members of the Institute, however, ranging form 25 to 60 years old, have remained ambitious...

Author: By Spencie Love, | Title: Women Try to Combine Marriage with Career At Radcliffe Institute | 5/13/1969 | See Source »

...continuity girl's desk. It was not the proverbial start of a career role. For example, the sets were a big old pole bed put down where the sea comes in to make its last foam on the beach and, next to it, what looked like an attic or The Old Curiosity Shop was reconstructed on the sand...

Author: By Thomas M. Caplan, | Title: B-School Boy Meets 'Virgin Sex' | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...ATTIC has echoes of both Alfie and The Graduate, but viewers may find themselves being won over by its own sleazy charm as it spins the unlikely tale of a campus Lothario (Chris Jones) whose best girl (Yvette Mimieux) develops a novel and strenuous plan to punish him for his infidelities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 25, 1969 | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

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