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Sir / I was happy to see your story on John Denver [Sept. 17]. What Van Gogh has painted ana Thoreau has written, Denver has sung. His songs keep me contented until the day I, too, see the Rockies.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1973 | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

This immediacy is the vehicle for his full-bodied human landscapes. In the prairielands of Kansas or Texas Bogdanovich creates characters who set out to realize their wildest dreams, whether they be beautiful women or perfect con-games. They don't realize them, but in the process achieve a personal...

Author: By Gilbert B. Kaplan, | Title: Paper Moon | 7/10/1973 | See Source »

Retirement will not be an abrupt change for his contented man. He admits he will miss his job--the people, the benefits and the books--but he looks forward to pursuing his favorite pastime--travel.

Author: By Katherine Field, | Title: Jr. Lincoln Hired As Father Retires At Harvard Press | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

The brisk young Nixon men. The brusquely efficient cop. The precise and credible-sounding veteran of the CIA and FBI. All contented with their anonymity only a year ago, they now slipped one by one into a central seat facing seven U.S. Senators ranged along a green-felt-covered table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Newest Daytime Drama | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

The strained pseudopoetic rhetoric and portentous declamatory style remind one of Maxwell Anderson scaling his molehills of dramatic verse. An intermittent sidebar monologue features an innocuous-looking Manson-family girl casually relating the horrors of the Sharon Tate murders with a lubriciously contented purr. Together with the repeated cue name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Vortex of Evil | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

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