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THROUGHOUT this process the distorted image of the suffragette, educated girl probably takes her "emancipation" as being beyond question, not even worth stating or discussing. Men will readily accept her as different, an exception, an interesting diversion. There might be a hint of strain over her sexuality, a flicker of doubt, the discovery of a strange duplicity lurking in men. But no connection is obvious. She cannot see a condition of women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women: The Struggle for Freedom | 3/5/1970 | See Source »

...until March 31 did he announce his decision to withdraw. But Johnson will not let the moment of his greatness rest-or even flicker. He goes back and back like a ghostly coroner seeking the cause of his own political death, finding it always in the faults of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: L.B.J. II--Marriage of Memos | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...prizefighters out of red ice who bleed slowly into buckets under their boxing ring while a tape recorder plays crowd screams. They take a week to die. Minimal sculpture everywhere, reaching even into the Portuguese delegation. Pushbutton and wind-up sculptures break down in a matter of hours. Slides flicker against every flat surface until the bulbs fuse. Enough visual noise is, in point of fact, white light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tour of a Long Spiral | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...start, Ginsberg shows a flicker of humor-which is more than can be said for his actors. When Joe (Rip Torn) tells a masochistic nymph that "there are only two or three ways," she volunteers brightly: "I could talk to a friend on the phone while you're doing it to me." Joe mulls it over. "About what?" he asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Shrinking Shrink | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...final breakthrough came later in the year when he carved The Kiss. Nothing could be less like Rodin's voluptuous lovers than these stolid, blocklike figures. Where Rodin's lovers flicker and twist, Brancusi's lovers face each other straight on and are barely scratched on the surface of the stone. The tender surface of Rodin's burnished bronze palpitates with life; Brancusi's pitted limestone is all idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brancusi: Master of Reductions | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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