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...sophomore." The object of this muted envy is an undergraduate operator named Paxton Quigley, who conducts a personal course in concupiscence. Quigley cracks feminine reserve the way a grind cracks books-with a dedication that borders on frenzy. Yet, according to a breezy little movie called 3 in the Attic, he is also a prime target for a fate worse than dearth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Campus Cutups of 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

Sleazy Charm. Tobey, of course, discovers Quigley's triplicity and decides to punish him with overindulgence. The three girls imprison Quigley in the attic of their dorm and proceed to visit him, one every hour. After endless days of lovemaking, with only an occasional rare steak or cup of yogurt to keep up his energy, Paxton is finally sprung from the attic and manages to tell Tobey what she wants to hear: the reasons for his capricious infidelity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Campus Cutups of 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

Williams added that he hoped that some of the collections which are now kept in the attic and are almost inaccessible to students will be brought down into the main building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student-Faculty Committee To Discuss Museum Plans | 11/16/1968 | See Source »

...Attic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student-Faculty Committee To Discuss Museum Plans | 11/16/1968 | See Source »

...power in order that he grow up, in order that he take the old primitive root of his life-giving philosophy-which required every man to go through battles, if the world would live, and every woman to bear a child-yes, take that root off the high attic shelf of some Prudie Parsely of a witch-ancestor and plant it in the smashed glass and burned brick of the 20th century's junkyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comment: Mailer's America | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

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