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...certain prisoner psychology is taking hold. One cast member recently denounced a hot meal served on location as "proper swill." Another says darkly: "We're even beginning to fight over extra bowls and hide away pieces of stale cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Simulating Siberia | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...Nixon had a cement cake made, then covered it with decorative icing and presented it as a top quality cake. Critics of the cement interior would be told by Nixon (or Mitchell) that they are phony idealists who want to have their cake and eat it too. The whole point behind this crude analogy is that the cake is no good as a cake unless it can be eaten. By advertising his program as "an improving quality of life" for the American people, and then limiting his actions to minimal ecology pledges, Nixon is merely showing off the icing...

Author: By Jerry T. Nepom, | Title: State of the Union Nixon's Great Society | 2/24/1970 | See Source »

...dramatize their defiance, the defendants played guerrilla theater. When Judge Hoffman refused to let them bring a birthday cake into the courtroom for Bobby Seale, Rennie Davis yipped: "Hey, Bobby, they've arrested your cake." Yippie Hoffman, brutally playing on the judge's sensitivities as a fellow Jew, cried: "You are synonymous with Adolf Hitler." Dellinger peered at a testifying prosecution witness and said "Bull-"-provoking a scuffle in which two spectators were arrested. No matter how dubious the law under which they were tried, no matter how antagonistic the judge, the defendants were striking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Chicago Trial: A Loss for All | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

They are digging in. One girl cuts her little cake in half, daintily, pours on maple syrup and swallows the half in one gulp. Ron Bradshaw, manager of the House of Pancakes shakes his head sadly...

Author: By Gene Goltz, | Title: Tufts pancake eaters gobble way to crown | 2/11/1970 | See Source »

...have the strength to cry do nothing but cry, and the sound will never be forgotten by anyone who heard it. In Port Harcourt, His Excellency Lieut. Commander A. P. Diete-Spiff, military governor of Rivers State, married Miss Ethel Potts-Johnson, also of Rivers State. The wedding cake, shaped like a ship, was flown in from Lagos. The wedding dinner for 100 guests included two suckling pigs, three turkeys, 30 cold chickens, eight ducks, one side of roast beef, two goats on a spit, 30 chickens on a spit, various fresh salads, charlotte russe, three dozen bottles of vintage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: What Follows War | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

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