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Author: By Celia Gilbert, | Title: The God in Us Wishes to Live | 12/13/1972 | See Source »

...impressive British productions, Vanity Fair has been lavishly, even beautifully produced. Susan Hampshire, who earlier played Sarah Churchill and Fleur Forsyte, completes her collection of scheming bitches with Becky Sharp, the archetypical schemer. Hampshire manages to be both alluring and repelling, a hothouse feline with a tiger's claw. Always fascinating, she ought to be placed on the list of protected species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoints | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

Salisbury found in Pyongyang an extraordinary atmosphere of suspicion after two decades of isolation. The U.S., he reported, is portrayed as a "hawk-beaked, claw-fingered predator 'aggressor' with North Korea as its special target." Like the Chinese, the North Koreans have mastered the art of grandstand spectacle, in part to get across their revolutionary message. This one (above) was occasioned by the official visit of Major General Mohamed Siad Barre, the President of the Somali Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Big Ten Looks Like Amateur Night | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

FRITZ THE CAT is more than a hot-shot college feline chasing tail and getting pussy. It's a zoot-suited, claw-wagging crow shuffling to a Harlem bugaloo. It's three Mickey Mice breaking into cheers as USAF jets strafe New York City. It's stoned eagle at a Village dope party, and a mare raped by a sadistic leftist rabbit. It's pure unadulterated funk, and, aside from riots in the street--I can't think of much that suits the present moment better...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Fritz Don't Profess Any Graces | 5/12/1972 | See Source »

...like big brother embracing his sister before going a long way. It was a great impression." And that was not all. The tower was also "a sea crab that accidentally found on the bottom of the sea a rare and unusual white pearl it was holding in its clumsy claw." According to Yevtushenko, Astronaut Scott exclaimed: "It's absolutely what I feel, but I didn't express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 1, 1972 | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

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