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Shortly before his election to France's august Academic Franchise, Eugene Ionesco, playwright of the bizarre, opened a grab-bag entertainment called Inedits Ionesco on the Left Bank. The collection of sketches and fragments was favorably received. Still, several seats were left unsold; indeed, they were not for sale. Ionesco insisted on sprinkling the audience with human-size dummies of dogs, cats and jackasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 2, 1970 | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...grab some of that good Schlitz draught there, off of that shelf there, and kiss your favorite girlfriend goodbye and hustle on over to Rupert's house where you can tear off a couple of roll-on sticks of 6:12 insect repellent and cram them into a big open bottle of Windex, put the cap on, jam it up your nose, and let loose...

Author: By Felix Mantilla, | Title: Peter Bell | 1/28/1970 | See Source »

...just sits there doing nothing while those horn players my god there about to burst their lungs look their faces are getting all red their eyes are squeezed shut with the pain (or is it the ecstasy) and the singer is trying to make the song get across, to grab you in your soul and everyone is jumping up and down like crazy but that goddamn little man is just looking at you with his sickly plastic smile and beady little eyes and his arms methodically moving to some obscene rhythm that he thinks he hears but which...

Author: By Charles M. Hagen, | Title: The Man | 1/28/1970 | See Source »

Competing against a top national field a day later, Larry Carter, Harvard's Alpine captain, and Alan Watson sped down a difficult slalom course to grab 19th and 23rd, respectively, in the Holiday Classic at Crystal Mountain, Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Surprises Slopemen Race and Jump To High Places in Meets | 1/14/1970 | See Source »

...been dazzling college fans all fall and has the press clippings to prove it? Can that light little scatback or that skinny, glue-fingered end stand up against the agile brutes of the big leagues? Who are the sleepers, the unsung stars from little-known schools who will grab the headlines when they play for pay? The scouts' answers add up to something more than vital information for their teams. For the scouts have surveyed all of college football, big time and small; chosen by their demanding criteria, the top men at every position make up the most authoritative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Time's All-America: The Pick of the Pros | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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