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I am mortified to be a member of that white race, lest I be mistaken for the ignorant, vicious, crooked angry white that unfortunately is in the majority in the country.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 2, 1973 | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

What grave misdeed had they done? They had been found guilty of smashing the windows of a barber shop, a gas station and two unoccupied autos with BBs fired from slingshots and of dropping balloons filled with water from a fifth story onto passing cars. It was precisely the boyishness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Of Balloons and Boys | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

She did not recognize this house. Whose house was it, this shack crumbling to gray ugly dust in a gray rain? She did not feel like herself either, standing in the crooked doorway, ragged and dusty as the dirt road wandering before her. Who lived here? She knew she must...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

It is always interesting when a director tries to teach an old culture-figure new tricks, but what Altman takes from Chandler doesn't fulfill his new needs. Chandler's Long Goodbye focused on all the obstacles put between Marlowe and the truth about a friend's suspected murder (and...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Kissing Off Chandler | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

More than half the book is a recapitulation of Teamster corruption just before and during Hoffa's tenure as international president. This is a familiar witch's brew of paper locals, hanky-panky with the enormous pension funds, involvement with a Mafia Who's Who, intimidation of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home for Christmas | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

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