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When Chama roughs up one of his hired hands, Clint signs on to guide a party of vigilantes to Chama's lair. The vigilante leader is a lowdown land baron (the redoubtable Robert Duvall) whose holdings are threatened by Chama. "We can cut your ears off," the land baron warns Chama partisans. "We can cut something else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Child's Play | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

...marching to downtown Boston is a first step. Sending telegrams and letters to key Senators and representatives is another. Signing and circulating petitions is a third. Plans are coalescing for a mass action later this week in Washington: we should count on going to confront the monster in his lair. All the alternatives may seem fruitless, yet they must still be attempted. The survival of the world--astonishing as it seems--may depend on our actions over the next several days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Act Now | 5/10/1972 | See Source »

...diplomat in the Netherlands. Then, on February 4, a spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Information Department in Peking said that both the removal of Liao Ho-shu to the U.S. and American hostility to China show that "U.S. President Nixon and his predecessor Johnson are jackals of the same lair without the least difference." The spokesman also threatened "grave consequences" should Liao not be handed back to China. On February 19, the spokesman announced Peking's cancellation of the Warsaw talks without setting a date for a future meeting...

Author: By Jim Blum, | Title: Nixon and Mao: The Coming of the Thaw | 4/12/1972 | See Source »

...contributions to the aeronautical world, while Jess Cook interviewed Irving. Meanwhile, Roger Williams, John Tompkins and James Willwerth were also sifting Manhattan sources. Don Neff journeyed to Las Vegas and Carson City to interview state officials and former Hughes subordinates. Peter Range's assignment was Hughes' current lair on Paradise Island, where he found a James Bond atmosphere: "You can be sipping a gin fizz, chatting with London on the bar phone, going over the local paper and still keep an eye on Hughes' windows. The poolside steel band is throbbing. Your glance drifts upward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 24, 1972 | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...lure her back, each stymied by Lisa's obstinacy or the pseudopsychological prattering of her sister Nan (Elizabeth Ashley), who has, it seems, a good deal more than an amateur analyst's interest in her brother-in-law. She makes frequent trips to his beachside bachelor lair. At one point she practically unravels her bathing suit in an attempt to interest him. He remains impassive throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Failed Graduate | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

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