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...heck! Why not? Speculate this one through the old wisdom machine: God's chosen nation of towering indestructible infernoes blazing to the sky. The land of Milk and Honey and Twelve Foot Citizens. It could never happen in China or the Soviet Union, or any of these other knee-high, submongoloid, blankety-blank satrapies. But only in America. Subway to Freedom. Inventor of Intelligence. Home of Thomas Edison, Rutherford Hays, Popeye The Sailor Manson, Telly Sevalis, Gene Kelly, Huey Long, Richard Ward Day, George C. Patton, James Joyce, Martin Kilson, Endicott Peabody, F.W. Woolworth, and Paul Revere, just to name...

Author: By N. NASH Eberstadt, | Title: Trans-Sexual Athletes: Battle of the Chromosomes? | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

...batted big lashes at me. Could this be, I wondered, the same pasteurized number who had never been involved with anything seamier than hatching tadpoles in Richter's biology lab? Who had never shown more knee than the Brobdingnagianized safety-pin on her scotch-kilts would allow? Who had never pressed more flesh than when doing the Virginia Reel at Lucy Karambelas's Holy Communion Ball...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Candy is randy but pasta is fasta | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

...doncha come up for a short one toots?" she whispered huskily, raising her knee to light a Strike-Anywhere that got tangled in the netting...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Candy is randy but pasta is fasta | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

Designers of the latest Paris fashions owe a debt to the Latin poet Virgil for their "new" ideas. The photographs worthily exemplify his description of Venus as a huntress: nuda genu, nodoque sinus collecta fluentis [bare knee, and flowing robes gathered in a knot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 6, 1976 | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...theatrical anarchist, a direct descendant of Dada. He believes in epic projections. One of his earlier plays, The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin, clocked in at twelve hours. Einstein on the Beach runs just over 4½ hours, unfolding through four acts, nine scenes and five "knee plays"-short connecting vignettes. Performed without intermission, it requires a Heldenaudience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Beach Boy of Opera | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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