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Many of the girls are well-known Sunset Strip characters with names like Sable Starr or Lori Lightning, and their accoutrements are kookier than their names: glitter makeup, an electric Afro pierced by a long-stemmed rose, extremely low-cut dungarees with two suspenders to cover the nipples. The gay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: High at the Hyatt | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

HESS YNTEMA is back. Yntema, who in an astounding freshman year, defying the laws of age and experience, shattering the myths of Harvard impotence on a national scale, plunging, stroking, paddling through hour after hour, day after day of endless practices, traipsing in at early hours for morning work and...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Where Have All the Heroes Gone? | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

The National Gallery's show, directed by a trio of experts (Konrad Oberhuber, Jay Levenson and Jacquelyn Sheehan), brings together some 200 examples, ranging from masterpieces like Andrea Mantegna's Entombment of Christ to a cheery bit of erotica (involving a girl who bears a startling resemblance to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Graven Images | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

The beauty of Faulkner's style is his long, inward-turning sentences, like distracted monologues that veil the intended revelation. He doesn't attach himself to details in any precise, coordinated way, but roams about looking for the latent image. At times, though, his wordiness turns against him:

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Old South Bites the Dust | 8/21/1973 | See Source »

This is fine with Mason, since he does not intend to become a newscaster or director but a detective when he grows up. Recently, during the shooting of an Underwood commercial, Mason showed his insight into the criminal mind in the great Cookie Caper. Consigned by his mother to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Pint-Sized Pitchman | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

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