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A new neighborhood newspaper called Wisdom's Child, published on Manhattan's Upper West Side, begins by noting that life there "can be a delightful thing." That said, the editors offer a cutout page of emergency telephone numbers-for firemen, police, suicide prevention, addict assistance, a 24-hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Turning the Urban Cheek | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

Charles Glover and Tina Williamson are delightful, playing a pair of sweet, artless, Elizabethan lovers. Their stage names? Prepare yourself-Toby and Notoby. As soon as you see their names on the program, you know someone is going to elaborate on the pun. Sir Keold finally satisfies the audience's...

Author: By Ann L. Derrickson, | Title: Nonsense For the Many More | 2/26/1971 | See Source »

"Se tu sarai solo," Leonardo da Vinci remarked five hundred years ago, "tu sarai tutto tuo" (If you are alone, you are your own man). Biking, like gliding, is one of the most delightful expressions of this fact. There is nothing secondhand or vicarious about the sense of freedom, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: MYTH OF THE MOTORCYCLE HOG | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

Its story, like all children's tales, is elementary malignance v. unvanquishable virtue. A kindly old Parisienne intends to leave her francs to her cat and three kittens. Upon their demise, the fortune will fall to Edgar, the butler. Hmmmm, mulls the villain: a cat lives twelve years, felines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Top Bubble | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

Karen Black, the most delightful piece of Five Easy Pieces, agrees. "Sex is a good subject," she says. "But if your sense of sex is covert and your ideas about sex bring an aberrated gleam to your eye, the scene is going to be below my level of acceptability." How...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Ali MacGraw: A Return to Basics | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

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