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William Randolph Hearst was a "son of a bitch." Charlie Chaplin was "so shy" at a whorehouse. Joe DiMaggio was "a washed-up ballplayer" when he married Marilyn Monroe, and he "used to sit home every night watching television " Strong stuff? Too strong for Groucho Marx, who did indeed say those things but wishes that a duck had dropped from the ceiling to stop him. Groucho cited the examples- and more- in court papers filed in his $15 million damage suit against Darien House Inc., publisher of The Marx Bros. Scrapbook ($13.95) for failing to sanitize some of his grouchier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 26, 1973 | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

...white fighter without responsibilities is not reliable," says Aspiring Manager Ariel Van Daumee. "A middle-class white son of a bitch without goals will usually break your heart." He knows his boy. Vic Bealer (Jon Voight) fights heavyweight, talks about going to the nationals and getting to the Olympics, even turning pro. He has the equipment to do it, too. Blond and tall and blue-eyed, Vic is the kind of guy people like to pin hopes on; he is the young man of vast promise in whom the confidence of others is so eagerly invested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dubious Battler | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the emotionless rite has a permanently damaging effect on Steve's (and Bullins's) attitude towards women. Women are seen as sexual objects and survival of the male ego becomes dependent on crushing the female's. "You sonna bitch," Velma, the lonely housewife Steve seduces and mistreats in The Duplex, curses. "You're a sonna bitch," the first black woman he rapes in The Reluctant Rapist cries out as he defiles her. But instead of being offended by the epithets, he wears them boldly as though they were testimonials to his manliness. For Bullins the only law that operates...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee, | Title: Hookers and Hustlers, Preachers and Poor | 11/17/1973 | See Source »

Kleindienst then received a call from Nixon, who said: "You son of a bitch, don't you understand the English language?" Nixon ordered him to drop the appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Reopening ITT | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

...pieties. Few would argue that the Soviet Union could never be tempted into acting out her ancient ambitions, or that U.S. military strength and civil concord are not important to keeping the peace and pre serving the Constitution. But Drury finished his novel in February-and history, that heartless bitch, has stood him up again, with the Watergate investigations and the Agnew scandal. Characters more fascinating, events more crowded, a conspiracy against the Constitution far more plausible than any thing Drury has invented. It is not Drury's country that is a helpless giant, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Helpless Giant | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

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