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...Cockroach Milk. When Russia burst triumphantly into literary history in the 19th century, it was hardly surprising that most of her great writers were steeped in folklore. "Each one is a poem!" said Pushkin, who, like Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, used folk tales as vital elements in his work. The selection of folk tales in this English volume was made from Alexander Afanasev's classic mid-19th century collection. First published in the U.S. 30 years ago, the book has now been reprinted under the somewhat misleading rubric Russian Fairy Tales. Actually, the stories include animal fables and laconic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Russia's Magic Spring | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...John Koenig, the crew overcomes such obstacles as Gwent, the man turned machine; Arra (played by Margaret Leighton), the queen of the enormous planet Astheria; and the temptress of the heavens, the Guardian of Piri. The special effects far exceed anything on Star Trek. They include fleets of hovering cockroach-shaped spaceships, squads of yellow moon buggies and an array of enticing equipment from whatever passes for the Abercrombie & Fitch of intergalactic travel. Laser beams are flashed around like Saturday night specials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Spacing Out The Networks | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

People are out there in the land of Midcult, My Not-So-Dear Editor, who should be warned against Marshall McLuhan (compared to whom "Spengler is cautious and Toynbee positively pedantic"). Buckminster Fuller (whose prose reads like Archie the cockroach with his capital shift working). And of course Tom Wolfe-"Parajournalist!" -who presumed to attack The New Yorker, the Golden Arches Macdonald calls home. Could a Macdonald enemies list be complete without those sparring partners Cozzens (James Gould) and Cousins (Norman), the author of By Love Possessed who was by Macdonald savaged and the editor of Saturday Review/World? (When Macdonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Mac | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...award included a gold painted brick, a gold cockroach to "enhance Mr. Rockefeller's personal beetle collection and to remind him of the people who are forced to collect coackroaches," and a pile of fake money. NAM also issued an invitation for Nelson A. Rockefeller, former governor of New York, to speak before it about his grandfather's alleged cruelty to factory strikers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rockefeller Sees New Alliance Between U.S. and Arab States | 4/12/1974 | See Source »

archy and mehitabel, an adaptation of don marquis's story of a cat and a cockroach who couldn't depress the shift lock, officially opened on sunday. unofficially it's been running for about a year, of course, but it's always nice to do things right. sort of like henry aaron hitting it in atlanta. weekends, 2:30 p.m., theater two at 196 broadway, along with Changes (Brecht and two contemporary one-actors) in the evenings...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: THE STAGE | 4/11/1974 | See Source »

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