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...special quirks, whether it be in salads, sex or sports." For example: "Tonight, after the children are in bed, place a lighted candle on the floor and seduce him under the dining room table." A Total Woman might also try proposing sex in the hammock-even if there isn't any hammock. Marabel warns: "He may say, 'We don't have a hammock.' " But the Total Woman has an answer: "Oh, darling, I forgot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The New Housewife Blues | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...Children Kara, 16, Ted Jr., 14, and Patrick, 8. They all lived off the fat of the land -cookouts at local friends' homes-endured scraped knees and capsized canoes, and at an amusement park, braved the roller coaster. As ever, the Kennedy holiday was no swing in a hammock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 19, 1976 | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

After a day's worth of Sliding Rock, it was home to cornbread and vegetables from the backyard and a hammock on the porch in Black Mountain. The white-hotness of the day gave in to smoky candles, easy. After a time, there wasn't time...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Sliding Rock'n'Roll | 7/9/1976 | See Source »

...Gomara, after men knew Christopher Columbus had found not Cathay but a wholly new "fourth part of the earth." For centuries, fabled islands populated by demigods, monsters or Arcadians had been part of the imagery of European legend, and the discovery of the South American Indian-lolling in a hammock, innocent of toil and tyranny, naked except for a bright girdle of macaw feathers, as imagined by Stradanus in 1589-seemed to confirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Arcadian Vision | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...whizzes, several neats and a little derisive laughter for The Land That Time Forgot, the best Saturday matinee movie in much too long. It is an elaborate fantasy adventure with no bearing in reality whatsoever. The movie boasts a blond American hero with a jaw like a hammock (Doug McClure), a blonde British heroine (Susan Penhaligon) and a whole bunch of soldiers, most of whom are nice guys. This happy crew gets mixed up with U-boats, torpedoings, fistfights, a mutiny, icebergs, lost civilizations, dinosaurs, pterodactyls, swamps, jungle, quicksand, strange-looking creatures who are in the process of evolving into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Second Childhood | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

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