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...that his legal mother was in fact a virgin, Wordsworth substitutes that woman's ashes with cannabis, he is accosted by whores in a sleazy Paris nightclub while a stripper twirls platinum coated nipples in the spotlights. Aunt Augusta is Henry's wicked fairy--in the beginning a brazen hussy, in the end a worn out bronze he has come to love...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: An Old Man's Daydreams | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...America and elsewhere, there are those who have branded the moon landings as brazen propaganda ploys or technological stunts. They are prisoners of limited vision who cannot comprehend, or do not care, that Neil Armstrong's step in the lunar dust will be well remembered when most of today's burning issues have become mere footnotes to history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Apollo 17: Farewell Mission to the Moon | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

...Corp., a New Jersey electric equipment company, which he once said he had built "on financial agility." He entered IOS in 1970 in the role of savior, arranging a desperately needed $10 million loan and later becoming chairman. Soon, though, the SEC charged, Vesco began acting as despoiler. His "brazen" scheme, according to the agency, unfolded in three steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: One of the Largest Frauds | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

...with a singing narration stating that we are about to glimpse Johann Sr., "founder of the house of Strauss." Lyricists Robert Craig Wright and George Forrest make great capital of this rhyme, employing it later when Johann Jr. is toiling over his operetta and the narrator boasts in his brazen tenor: "In 43 days/ Inside this house/ Johann Strauss/ Composed Die Fledermaus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hoedown in Vienna | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...controlled chaos within his music. He succeeded almost immediately. And to insure that success, he's kept his solo album band intact. The crudeness he achieves on record is as much studied as it is technical. And much of that crudeness stems from Mick Waller's drumming. Harsh and brazen, solid and simple, Waller is the backbone of the sound. To add to its crudity, the drums are mixed very prominently; when you hear a song, the drums while not completely separated on your stereo, are always very loud, and "up front" in the total sound. Stewart adds to this...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: Never A Dull Moment | 8/8/1972 | See Source »

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