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...George Plimpton?" In another, set in some imaginary banana republic whose government is about to be overthrown, one mustachioed officer demands of his coconspirators: "Before we proceed with the coup, gentlemen . . . which one of you is George Plimpton?" A third (discreetly exiled to the office bathroom) is set in a whorehouse. "See that new girl looking out the window?" one prostitute whispers to another. "I hear she's really George Plimpton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: George Plimpton: The Professional Amateur | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...stunning Circle Campus in Chicago also stumbled, in effect, over its untied shoelaces. Although Walter Netsch, a brilliant partner at Skidmore. Owings & Merrill, intended to develop an especially efficient organizational layout, he ended up with a devilishly intricate maze. In certain parts of the building, going to the bathroom entails a walk up one flight of stairs and down another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Campus: Architecture's Show Place | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...cool, attractive guy," an appraisal that might alarm his insecure male fans, who soothe themselves with the comfortable notion that Gould has all the sex appeal of a sated salmon swimming downstream. "He's a lot of fun in the tub," confides Paula Prentiss, who played a bathroom scene with him in Move. "He's very easy to love. And he always knows his lines." Some might say too well. A couple of other M*A*S*H stalwarts believe that Gould and Sutherland hogged all the best bits of comic business, and one, who maintains that Elliott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Elliott Gould: The Urban Don Quixote | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

...Shenge district (pop. 25,000). A Junoesque woman who stands 6 ft. 1 in., Madame Honoria enjoys such baubles as a white Mercedes, an open palanquin in which she is carried by her subjects, a golden mace presented to her chieftaincy by Queen Victoria, and an elaborate bathroom in which everything from bidet to bath salts is pink. She is accompanied on her official rounds by an official elephant-horn player, who blows great blasts to announce her arrival and departure. She conducts her tribal court with dispatch and dignity. At a recent session, she quickly settled the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: African Women: From Old Magic To New Power | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

Foundation Trouble. The older a woman gets, says Lapides, the greater her tendency to delay. There is embarrassment at leaving the table or asking for the bathroom at a party. More mature women who still wear all-encompassing foundation garments may reason that the undressing involved is too much trouble, so they wait until they get home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Avoiding Voiding: Danger | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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