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...With shrapnel in his legs, arms and chest, Louw managed to crawl to the telephone and call for help before he passed out. Today, at 45, he is back on the farm with a cousin and teen-age son to help him; they live in a dramatically transformed household. It is now surrounded by a chain-wire fence, topped by barbed wire. Powerful searchlights flood the bush at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: The Thin White Line | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...said: "I'm not going to crawl on my hands and knees...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Know-Your-President-Warts-and-All Quiz | 5/28/1974 | See Source »

Donkey Caravans. With almost all of the drought area far away from the few railways, navigable rivers and paved roads, relief trucks have had to crawl along sand and dirt paths in desert heat. In Ethiopia, some of the neediest areas are so deep in the countryside that only caravans of donkeys and camels have been able to reach them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGER: Famine Casts Its Grim Global Shadow | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...night of June 16, 1904, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus went on their epic crawl through Dublin's Nighttown whorehouse district-the cuckold Bloom in his extravagant hallucinations of sexual heroism and abasement, the church-dazed intellectual Stephen in a nihilistic trance of guilt. Although James Joyce wrote the Nighttown section of Ulysses in the form of drama, his triple-bottomed language does not translate easily to the stage. It may need the stability of the written page to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: A Muted Bloom | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

Twelve-year-old creamy-skinned, apple-cheeked Regan (Linda Blair), daughter of a famous actress divorcee (Ellen Burstyn) living in the heart of Georgetown society, is possessed mind and body by the devil. Her face grows bloated, crossed by pusfilled lesions; her eyes become cat's orbs that crawl back in her head; her skin swells and turns a swamp color; her hair gets sticky and snaky; her voice comes out the croak of a just-cured male mute; convulsions contort her body and it flips like a wounded crocodile's tail; she drools green gook when...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Screaming Yellow Zombies | 1/25/1974 | See Source »

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