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...blather about 'responsibility' to keep secrets instead of exploding abuses has begun to creep back into the press parlance," he wrote, citing "the old pre-Watergate, pre-Vietnam ideals of partnership with government...of a camaraderie of secrets shared by this peerage but kept from the public...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: It's All in the Family | 3/28/1975 | See Source »

...always with movies being as frighteningly manipulative as they are, one identifies with Bronson as he walks the streets shooting muggers, or crowning them with a sock full of rolls of coins--you can't help it. And some can say legitimately that yes this is just about some creep who goes around offing poor people while they make a hero out of him. But in another sense one can find a general rebellion against urban life in American here, a man fighting for a decent life. This is only a tiny sliver of an idea...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: THE SCREEN | 2/20/1975 | See Source »

Many feminists, however, find Isadora's obsession with men a confirmation of the worst stereotypes about women. Sandra Hochman, author of Walking Papers, admires Jong's frankness but complains that Isadora is "just another female loser, left in the end to choose between one creep and another." Becky Gould, newly elected president of the National Organization for Women in Los Angeles, objects to the fact that Jong's heroine "derives her identity through her relationships with men. She is prefeminist, confusing libidinal bluntness with liberation." Gould concedes, however, that Jong has helped make headway for women writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The Loves of Isadora | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

...ships and seals and walruses Along the shores do creep...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Weiss Up | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...fuss over foliage bewildered some natives. Watching the traffic creep past him, one old Granite State sage concluded, "After they go home I've got to pick up all these leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Foliage Freaks | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

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