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Engaged in the great American game of trying to have it both ways, Playboy and Penthouse try to distance themselves from their gamier rivals. Both run serious critical departments on films, books and records. Playboy carries fiction, though not often the best work, by top writers, who are paid top prices because their presence, in the jargon of Hollywood, "authenticates" the magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Merchants of Raunchiness | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...Ideally, one was carried forward by the logic of the plan as, at a play, one was swept along by the plot. The buildings were meant to unfold. This feeling for ritual movement, the promenade, would almost disappear from architecture in the 20th century; and yet it was functional. Gamier was one of the last to recognize that fantasy and ceremonial had valid roles in secular architecture. People did not just go to the opera to see performance; they went to enjoy a ritual called "going to the opera." In the Paris Opera, Gamier enshrined that ritual. "How large should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Functional Fantasy | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

MERCIER AND GAMIER by SAMUEL BECKETT 123 pages. Grove Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Preparing for Godot | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

...ordinary citizens as well as for inmates in their cells and lions in their cages, it was a rough time to be in Baltimore. Ripening mounds of garbage, growing ever gamier in the hot summer sun, piled up next to the city's famed row houses. Temperatures in some jail cells rose as high as 110°, broiling the unsupervised inmates. Zoo officials started a rumor that they might have to slaughter small animals in order to feed larger ones. That persuaded union members to allow food to be brought in; but no manure was taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Chaos in Charm City | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...York City's Tenderloin district for ten months of astounding discoveries about police involvement in brothels and gambling houses. Since then, a major investigation has been made of New York's Finest at almost regular intervals (1913, 1930, 1950, 1971). Chicago has a less metronomic, but even gamier tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Making Police Crime Unfashionable | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

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