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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power and respect for professionalism, wherever found. But Nixon is even more in Mailer's eyes, not merely a political genius but an artist of the banal, "the Einstein of the mediocre and the inert." In an astute account of the psychological balance-sheet, Mailer sees that one egg thrown at a Republican matron by an antiwar demonstrator "can mop up the guilt of five hundred bombs" dropped on Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Einstein of the Mediocre | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

...nutritiousness, one Oscar Mayer wiener contains as much protein as one egg, and only one-tenth as much cholesterol. Pound for pound, Oscar Mayer wieners contain almost as much protein as T-bone steak-about 11% v. about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1972 | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...with Harvard on Baker Field will determine if, in fact, the Lions' dream is still obtainable. Two Saturday's ago Jackson and his teammates were able to put 44 points on the board, while Fordham and its big offensive machine were only able to rustle up a big goose egg. Last week against Princeton, Jackson had his title hopes dampened when he could only escape from Princeton's Palmer Stadium with a tie. If they hope to win, the Lions must do better offensively today -- maybe they'll score. But alas, Don Jackson isn't a bad guy. After...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dake It or Leave It | 10/14/1972 | See Source »

Focusing on a stock scandal perpetrated by Houston promoter Frank Sharp that proved to involve Gov Preston Smith Speaker of the Texas House Gus Mutscher. Houston mayor Louis Welsh former state attorney general Waggoner Carr and even NASA astronaut James A Lovell Katz cracks the golden egg of the Texas state capitol for a broad look at the kind of "business" that state officials are really doing under that dome...

Author: By Harry Hurt, | Title: Shadow' on the Alamo | 9/26/1972 | See Source »

Scenarist Barnes (who has adapted the film from his own play) has written a snarling, overwrought and somewhat parochial satire on aristocracy and privileged morality. He lays his ironies on with a trowel and drives his points home with a bludgeon. The direction is uneven. As in Joe Egg, which he also filmed, Director Medak frequently has his actors break into ironic renditions of old pop songs, like Varsity Drag or Dem Bones, a device whose brittle charm crumbles with repetition. He also persists in having his films wretchedly photographed. The Ruling Class looks as if it were shot under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cartoons from Punch | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

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