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...single that tested well in Omaha but died in Atlanta-after which Epic dropped him too. Even in the Catskills, audiences played mah-jongg while he sang them love ballads, and they clacked their tiles on the table to show their bored approval. He quit, he says, "in disgust and revulsion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The $390,000 Man | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...character. Turner is good as the victimized soldier, quietly bowing to his captain's abuse while even more quietly considering twisting the blade of the razor with which he shaves him. And Turner is equally good in the scene of the jealous lover, spitting out rage and a disgust of the flesh worthy of an Othello. But he does not convey Woyzeck's slow emotional deterioration and the enlightenment that should come with the consciousness of his own fall. The recognition that society has made "one thing after another" happen in his life is Woyzekc's realization which should...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Questions upon Questions | 4/30/1976 | See Source »

...major U.S. film studio. He would summon associates to midnight meetings in obscure hotels and sometimes hole up for weeks in a studio screening room, subsisting on cookies and milk while watching nonstop reruns of old flicks. The studio had few postwar hits; its executives revolted; and in disgust Hughes sold RKO in 1954 for a small profit to the General Tire and Rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: THE HUGHES LEGACY SCRAMBLE FOR THE BILLIONS | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

Bailey paused dramatically, then said quietly but with seething disgust: "Yeah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Plodder Scores Off the Idol | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...that Israel would not accept dictation. He accused Kissinger of bringing in the President to pressure Israel. Kissinger claimed he had nothing to do with tbe presidential message. He said the Israelis seemed to think the President was a puppet whose strings were held by Kissinger. He said in disgust that if it were up to him, he would have given up. Rabin lit another cigarette, looked straight at Kissinger and said, 'I do not believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Stuff of Shuttle Diplomacy | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

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