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Clean-Cut Victory. Many who proclaim fealty to the Administration are unreconstructed hawks who either do not realize or choose to ignore the fact that Nixon is determined to disengage from Viet Nam. In New Orleans, Randolph Dennis, chairman of Operation Speak Out, sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: PARADES FOR PEACE AND PATRIOTISM | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

Grinding out his two or three epics a year, Wayne feinted a jab with Big Jim McLain, the story of a ham-fisted HUAC investigator. It failed because Wayne was as uneasy in mufti as he was playing Genghis Khan in The Conqueror. In that film, Mongolia became westernized when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: John Wayne as the Last Hero | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

Where Eagles Dare is one of those war movies that looks as if it were cribbed from the funny papers. Steve Canyon is more realistic, and Terry and the Pirates more exotic, but Eagles beats them both in the departments of action-packed implausibility and two-fisted idiocy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mission Ridiculous | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

Naturally, Marya Mannes, thinly disguised as a bright, sixtyish, musically inclined writer named Kate, winds up like that, in her family's year-round beach house. Along with her is an aging cross section of the New York cultural scene: a ham-fisted objective painter and his ex-model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Folks at Home | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

The most ironic fate of all befell Brillo-bearded Jerry Rubin, 30, a former Berkeley free-speecher and now a yippie leader. To protect himself from police strong-arm tactics, Rubin hired a husky, sledge-fisted Chicagoan known as "Big Bob Lavin," whose beard and bellicosity were matched by his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: WHO WERE THE PROTESTERS? | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

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