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...automated dialer and recorded-message player that can make up to 1,000 calls a day. Because the device blankets entire telephone exchanges-automatically dialing all the numbers, both listed and unlisted-no one can escape the unwanted pitches. And taking the phone off the hook activates a "howler" device of slowly rising intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: On the Phone War Front | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...Dordogne Valley in southwest France is known for its richly forested hillsides, its spectacular rock formations, its prehistoric cave paintings and - perhaps most fondly - for its truffles and foie gras. It also happens to be the home of Peripherique, a six-pound black howler monkey and rogue male, whose treetop wanderings inspired local farmers to name him after the high-speed roadway that encircles Paris. Like all howl er monkeys, black or red, Peripherique has an amazingly overdeveloped set of vocal chords: his mere coo, echoing across the valley like the roar of a hungry lion, has startled many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fond Monkey Business in France | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...chance in an engagement on which millions are riding. It is not merely improbable in a time when even a legitimate challenger like Ken Norton, who is a movie star to boot, does badly on closed-circuit TV, it is preposterous. One really cannot deal with such a howler and at the same time interest oneself fully in Rocky's quest for a moral victory (staying on his feet a full 15 rounds with the champion). It is too bad. Rocky was shot very inexpensively, giving hope to all who be lieve that it is possible to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Contender | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...Kline went through a period of realism, including social realism. This is a painting by Franz Kline (not Ben Shahn) called Ex-Servicemen and the Unemployed (1941). As your man says, "One example will do for all." I'm afraid that leaves us with just one elementary howler: the one named Robert Hughes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jul. 21, 1975 | 7/21/1975 | See Source »

Your review wallah has gone and pulled a howler. When one has knocked about the federated Malay States for donkeys' years, as one has, one learns that "stengah" means a small whisky and water, nothing more, nothing less. Any chappie askin' for a "gin stengah" at the Yellow Dog in K.L. would be hooted off the verandah before you could say knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jun. 2, 1975 | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

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