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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affectionate farewell tug at Balthasar's cap near the end. In the tomb, he picks Juliet up from her bier and cradles her body on the floor during his final soliloquy (the finest speech Shakespeare gave him). In a departure from custom, at his last words--"Thus with a kiss I die"--he is able to move forward only part way toward Juliet's lips before he falls back dead, thus showing that the apothecary's drugs not only "are quick" but are a good deal quicker than he expected. To the very end this Romeo lacks the experience...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Juliet Not Good Enough for Her Romeo | 7/5/1974 | See Source »

...Beginning Was the End (Praeger; $7.95), the enthusiasm of Author Oscar Kiss Maerth spills over in red ink. The book, subtitled Man came into being through cannibalism-intelligence can be eaten, bears all the markings of pristine eccentricity: a big theme, a closed system of self-perpetuating logic, a disdain for accepted thought, no specific scientific references, no index and no bibliography. Kiss Maerth, who is described as a man born in Yugoslavia who spent many years in a Chinese Buddhist monastery and now lives at Lake Como, seems never to have heard of Lamarckian biology, T.D. Lysenko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Top Bananas | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

...Kiss Maerth binds his ideas together with a most inventive use of scattered, fragmentary data and his own obviously passionate conviction. It is quite a read, though persons on a low cholesterol diet might care to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Top Bananas | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

Both candidates ran modest campaigns with limited funds and the help of numerous relatives. Both racked up impressive mileage as they crisscrossed the state with their handsome wives in search of votes, but their styles and tactics differed. Threatening to bite rather than kiss the first baby he saw, Denenberg, 44, plunged into crowds, bluntly demanding votes and firing flamboyant rhetoric in all directions. Samples: "The oil companies have been fixing prices for so long, they don't know it's illegal. Government is the No. 1 consumer fraud. I was on to Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: Redford v. Cagney | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...unwed mothers, she moved to Berkeley in 1970 and until a year ago was Patricia Soltysik's lover. Last year Hall worked as a $4.18-an-hour parks attendant, but she considered herself to be an artist and poet. A sample: "I will cradle you/ In my woman hips/ Kiss you/ with my woman lips/ Fold you to my heart/ And sing:/ Sister woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Hearst Nightmare | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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