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...need her. In fact, she decides, she has never gone against any body quite like these junior frontiers men of the Rockies. "Why don't they like handwriting?" she asks in future shock. "Is it going out?" But her ultimate nightmare question is this: "Why do some blush at the word 'love'; is love going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Now, Children | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

...parties and story conferences, Allen tossed off these lunatic lines in a tone that seemed to blush for its presumption. Only a polished comic, he thought, could do them proper injustice. So Allen's managers, Jack Rollins and Charlie Joffe, decided to buff him until he shone. After all, 15% of a writer's salary barely pays the office rent. But 15% of a star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen: Rabbit Running | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

Furthermore, the author's attempts to comment on the sexes would make Hemingway blush. "A man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do," Mersault muses. "What is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a woman's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: First Flood of Light | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

much treasure: I do not wish to blush...

Author: By James D. Blum, | Title: A Portrait of Grief and Pride | 5/3/1972 | See Source »

...wonder. The work is an unabashed sex comedy, a Myra Breckenridgian imbroglio of ungodly carryings-on among ancient deities. Cavalli's music floats along, endless melodious recitative, rich with strings, harps and harpsichord. The music makes even a blush-laden plot acceptable: Jove desires nubile Calisto, a virgin in the temple of Diana. Figuring correctly that Calisto will do anything Diana tells her, old Jove transforms himself into a replica of that bosomy goddess. Meanwhile the real Goddess Diana is cavorting with a local shepherd. After her gay, if confusing, romance, poor Calisto is turned first into a bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Campus Honors | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

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