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...Donald Riegle, acidly agrees, "The trouble is these guys think that what they're doing is so important they lose perspective. They think they're being unselfish worrying about the kids in Viet Nam and the poor in the ghettos, but that's a bunch of crap. All they want to do is see their name in print. It's all for their own aggrandizement. When it comes to being a daddy or a husband, there is no time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: The Relentless Ordeal of Political Wives | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...soft-core hookers who serve beer and Fruit Loops for breakfast. Segal likes the style, likes the dead-end quality of the life, and he leaps into it with gusto. Winning is the best way to work out of melancholy, but once Segal and Gould hit big, they crap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Gamblers | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...publicizing the number of Government contracts given to some of President Johnson's chief financial backers. During those years Hartmann also wrote position papers on legislative issues for the Republican House leaders. "We called them Constructive Republican Alternative Programs," he says, "which formed the acronym CRAP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The President's Eyes and Ears | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

Charlie and Bill stop at nothing in their lust for gambling, be it in cards or crap or horses or basketball, and most of us would look on them as freakish characters crazy enough to risk their savings on the roll of a die. But, after two hours of witnessing the frenetic, unmitigated pace of their lives, of their willingness to completely expose themselves to the fancy of fortune and the possibility of disaster, I felt a fascination much different from that usually associated with watching freaks like the fat lady at the circus. Instead, I felt the same amused...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Splitting For Points Unknown | 8/20/1974 | See Source »

...story, no plot, but it does have a progression." It is the same progression as the unfolding highway. The movie's obtrusive sense of present, constructed from the fast win and fast loss, the tension of a big money poker game, the green felt of a Reno crap table, a bowl of Fruit Loops for breakfast, flashes by with the same dreamy transcience as Colorado mountains, Utah salt flats, Nevada deserts, and California farms outside a car window...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Splitting For Points Unknown | 8/20/1974 | See Source »

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