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So far, CBS and NBC insist that they are more bored by Soap than worried about it. Says an NBC executive: "It's kids'porno: Laverne and Shirley, Three's Company-the end of a trend." CBS President Robert Wussler is rumbling about the possibility that Soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Is Prime Time Ready for Sex? | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

If these current predictions in St. Petersburg come true, which is by no means certain, it would mark the end of the most passionate of Catherine's many passions. Tall, muscular but hardly handsome, sometimes witty, some-tunes morose, Prince Potemkin once studied theology but chose the army instead. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: AuRevoir, Potemkin? | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

Without waiting for an answer, he and his fellow conspirators proceed to annihilate a classic. The epic adventures are turned into a few friezes reminiscent of a sixth grade pageant: Polyphemus, the Cyclops, bears a strong resemblance to a Sesame Street Muppet; Telemachus (Russ Thacker) might have escaped from a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Frieze Dried | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

Elkin creates his own zany mythic world out of reality. Like a Cyclops, he grabs up all the frail bodies of pathos left to modern man, relying on a single vision of complete and utter absurdity. He chews them and spits them out, showing them to be the pathetic hypocrisies...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Searching Seizures | 11/27/1973 | See Source »

Coach and team both criticized the referees. Malin called the officiating "diabolical." Andy Berg phrased it a little better: "If one of them had had another eye," he said, "he would have been a Cyclops."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Varsity Booters Fall to Tufts | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

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