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Hollywood has caught up at last. Wilder, 35, has lately been besieged with scripts and has sifted through them with his own brand of mad logic. What sort of actor would turn down a tempting offer from Mike Nichols to play in Catch-22, but accept the lead role as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Happy Peasant | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

This surreal version of a nursery rhyme is from the pen of Geneviève Deschranes, an imbecile French housewife with an abnormally small vagina. Regularly, Geneviève sends twenty-page love letters-disguised as chapters of a novel -to Philippe Perrigny, a second-rate French journalist who believes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lost Lady | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

Sir: The reviewer of Professor X's (Daniel Boorstin) The Sociology of the Absurd [April 13] missed what is probably the most delightful point of satire against society found in the book: the dedication "To Dick and Gloria Dorspn-Motif No. D132." Professor Dorson is director of the Folklore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 18, 1970 | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

What follows is a complete explanation of not only the flaws the Army finds worthy of rejection, but also the exact procedure that any potential, IV-F should follow to insure his safety. Suttler has done an outstanding job of depicting the grotesque world of the draft physical; the book...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Books on the Draft Survival Manuals | 5/13/1970 | See Source »

Although the departure of Cornell's Ned Harkness from the collegiate coaching brotherhood last week was a delightful occurrence for those who have always liked to remember Eastern hockey as it used to be, there is an excellent chance that his influence at Cornell will become more pervasive, if less...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 4/21/1970 | See Source »

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