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Kramer's formulae worked out pretty well throughout the 50's and 60's, both financially and critically. Taking a subject like nuclear warfare, he'd film it in a tendentious style, cohering to simplistic argument (e.g., the scale of nuclear warfare is a bad thing) and conventional Hollywood form...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Guess Who's Coming to Brandeis? | 11/12/1971 | See Source »

Elsewhere, dollar-carrying travelers can find few bargains. To protect themselves in this period of the floating dollar, U.S. travelers are stocking up cash and traveler's checks in pounds sterling, German marks, Swiss francs-anything but dollars-before they go abroad. Once arrived, they find that even a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Tips for Travelers: Don't Bring Cash | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

No romantic flights for English Poet Ted Hughes. Let others waft upward in attenuated dawns and high-blown rhetoric. Hughes stays below, foraging over a gritty landscape, battening onto whatever is starkly elemental. For him, poetry is "the record of how the forces of the universe try to redress some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Demons and Victims | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

"We'd play things like Ring-a-leevio, Three Feet to Germany, Johnny on the Pony," says Gould. But he excelled at flipping trading cards bought by the fistful down at Irving's Candy Store. "There were Smilin' Jack cards, baseball cards, World War II cards with General MacArthur and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Elliott Gould: The Urban Don Quixote | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

After taking in a fistful of radical interns last year, the Post drew a hard-line on political activists this year in response to Agnew-led attacks on the "liberal" press.

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Student Activists Denied Jobs in Government, Media | 5/14/1970 | See Source »

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