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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press did not invent these charges or inflate them out of proportion. The offenses already proved represent nothing less than an attempt to subvert the U.S. electoral system and then to hide the extent of that subversion. The argument, still widely heard, that all this was no more than dirty-politics-as-usual simply cannot be sustained by any halfway dispassionate student of the Watergate affair. Many of the offenders were public officials, men responsible for upholding the law in a law-and-order Administration. What the press did during the initial phase of Watergate, in addition to giving snapshots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COYER STORY: COVERING WATERGATE: SUCCESS AND BACKLASH | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

Birth of a World. If there is one word for the qualities of Miró's art, it is liberty, the freedom to invent, to associate image and shape at will, to sit easily in one's fantasies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joan Mir | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

Many of those terms will soon be outdated, of course, if they are not already. The very existence of the pamphlet threatens them. If every volunteer understands what convicts are saying, the inmate neologist will simply invent new jargon to remain different from the straights. For some prisoners, that's a number one Jones they do not want to kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Prison Patois | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

Daily wives grow more unkind and pink, and I must do with what was done when glutton, be content with television--plastic tit--count calories while they invent a better kind of missile...

Author: By Linda G. Sexton, | Title: Grounded | 5/28/1974 | See Source »

...Sister Meg insane in the first place. Thereafter, as Meg is re-examined and taken away in a straitjacket, the book erupts with dramatic clues that flare backward and forward through the narrative like thin, ignited trains of gunpowder, creating any number of tantalizing questions. Among them: Did Richard invent Meg? Is Meg the other half of Richard's tormented personality? Did Meg invent Richard? Is there a Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sibling Revelry | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

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