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"Lost Paraguayos" is purely picaresque; Stewart here is a rogue, seemingly sponging off the love of a very young maiden: "I like your laugh, and a nice hot bath and your oily sense of humor,--but if it rains again like it did today, I'm gonna hafta leave a...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: Never A Dull Moment | 8/8/1972 | See Source »

How they wrote them! With varying literary distinction, indeed with all the ornamental vices of the time, yet often with attractive energy and at copious length, they wrote to each other monthly, weekly, sometimes daily, for nearly 20 years. What was more unusual, the Jones family saved the letters, all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blind into Doom | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

IT WOULD BE a mistake to read this album as an epitaph. After all, a two-record set is a pretty ambitious undertaking and the Stones have always been at their best when least ambitious. The last time they overstepped their natural boundaries, they produced the relatively lousy Their Satanic...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: If Mick Jagger's An Exile on Main St. .......Then I'm an Okie from Muskogee | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

The son of a harmonica-playing sea captain, Carmines was born 35 years ago in Hampton, Va. Until age 17, he I planned to become a concert pianist, Then he took stock of his keyboard talents and decided on the ministry instead. "But in college at Swarthmore," he says, "I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Extravagant Eclectic | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

In Binary, which Crichton has just finished directing as an ABC-TV movie, a brilliant millionaire fanatic named Wright plots to destroy Richard Nixon. Wright believes that the President sold out the nation by breaking egg rolls with the Red Chinese. The Republican Party and the population of San Diego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Crichton Strain | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

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