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...Hawkeye Pierce, Donald Sutherland plays the penultimate draftee, a drooping, lugubrious sack of sadness who makes Beetle Bailey look like Douglas MacArthur. His sidekick, Trapper, pungently played by Elliott Gould, is a fur-bearing slob with the skills of a Christiaan Barnard and the instincts of a pornographer. "How was it?" he teases Burns, post-coitus: "Better than self-abuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Catch-22 Caliber | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...their sales items for a picture. "My God," she shrieked, "I've got so much on sale-she'd fall right through the floor. I'm a regular Filene's Basement," to name another good place for bargains, if you feel like traveling father afield, and a nice white fur coat with curly stuff all over it is reduced from...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Our First Annual January Bargain Tour | 1/9/1970 | See Source »

ACROSS the street, Rogers Harvard Square will give you $10 off a skirt made out of rabbit fur. Next door, at Estabrook and Co., the stockbrokers, they're featuring American Telephone and Telegraph at around $50. Ling-Tempco-Vought is reduced to $27 from a high of $97 in 1969, and Pan American World Airways has been cut from $31 to $14. Settebello next door has more dresses and shoes and such at around 30 per cent...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Our First Annual January Bargain Tour | 1/9/1970 | See Source »

...clear-cut. Charged on 13 counts, including assault and inciting to riot during the summer eruptions, an uncharacteristically subdued Bernadette denied everything-save for having organized a defense brigade and having thrown "one stone." Throughout the trial, she never wore her blue jeans-and-boots barricade uniform, preferring fur-trimmed maxi outfits instead. Her language, too, had changed. During last summer's rioting, the prosecution charged, she had roared out: "The black bastards [police] are beaten -they're out of gas!" Said Bernadette demurely: "I imagine if I used such language in public, even fewer people would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Bernadette Becalmed | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...part of its architecture-and no insignificant part at that. Churchill's bronze statue, like his impact, is larger than life. It stands 7 ft. 5 in. in height, weighs a ton, and cost $26,400. Clementine, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, 84, handsomely turned out in fur coat and pale blue feather hat, stepped forward to unveil her famous husband's latest image. Blinking in the bright lights, she pulled the cord and then started visibly as the drapings fell, to reveal her husband in his famous "bulldog" stance, with foot, chin, belly and vision forward. Permanently threatening another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 12, 1969 | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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