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...threat would not be so dire if he were charming just any old house wives. But according to the television flackery, they are "today's younger, more sophisticated homemakers," those "recently deposed go-go people," those Green Berets of the broom brigade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Yuk Among the Yaks | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...story about Ottilie turning down rich Lord Jamison for poor Royal Bonaparte and the fluctuating fortunes of Madame Fleur has neither the strength nor the wit to profit by this scaled-down production. Arlen's charm-marinated score-which includes a rousing new wedding number called Jump de Broom-gains nothing from small voices onstage and a five-piece combo in the orchestra pit. Yolande Bavan as Ottilie is as pretty as she is unconvincing, and funky-voiced Josephine Premice brings a fine high style to the role of Madame Fleur. But if the 1954 House was too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revivals: House of Flowers | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

Team manager Steve Burbank found Gonzalez a new pair, and coach Jack Barnaby arrived with a broom. While the Harvard star gingerly tested the new shoes, Midshipman Beard seized the broom and swept the court floor ferociously...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Racquetmen Swamp Middies, 9-0, For Ninth Straight Win of Season | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...Bring me the records of maintenance.' The nation with the best maintenance will recover first. Maintenance is something very, very specifically Western. They haven't got it in Russia. If I got in there in the warehouse, let's say, and I saw that the broom had a special nail, I would say, This is the nail of immortality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Specials: From the Waterfront | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

Though Robbie D, a skinny, goateed chap who looks vaguely like a molting broom, is only 20, most of the rock jockeys are pushing 30. Their natural habitat is the "jock booth," where, surrounded by stacks of 45-r.p.m. records, they suck on lemons, spray their throats, turn the treble up and the bass down, and wail. During an average three-hour program, they cram in six five-minute newscasts, twelve station breaks, 35 records and 54 commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Decibelters | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

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