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...What are you living for!" the playboy bellows, and drags him off for a spin in his sports car. The young man tries to resist but he cannot; the energy, the zest of the older man sweep him along like a leaf in a gale. Eighty, ninety, a hundred miles an hour and, mamma mia! no hands on the wheel! Two girls appear in a convertible; the playboy gives chase. The police roar after him; he flashes a government pass. Gas, cigarettes, food; the playboy orders but his companion pays. The young man objects to being used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Judas Goat | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

When the sun has set, the guardian ants come out of the burrow and climb into the bush. They inspect every twig and leaf, looking for marauders, especially the fierce, predatory ants that infest the pinewoods and would quickly slaughter the caterpillars. When Ross put spiders or beetles on the bushes, the protecting ants found them at once and quickly dragged them away. About 7:30 p.m., the caterpillar is let out of its burrow. Shepherded by the carpenter ants, it climbs to the topmost leaves of the bush and starts feeding greedily. The ants climb aboard and drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entomology: Animal Husbandry in The Animal Kingdom | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...CLAWSON-Royal-Athena II, 1066 Madison Ave. at 80th St. Clawson mixes nerve with verve in wax-oil-and-casein commentaries on politics, crime, Mom and libido. Not a fig leaf in the show. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art in New York: Nov. 8, 1963 | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

BROOKLYN MUSEUM-Eastern Parkway. Asian art on loan from Collector Ernest Erickson, including Islamic ceramics, Indian miniatures, Nepalese, Thai and Cambodian sculpture, two pages from an 11th century Buddhist palm-leaf manuscript. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art in New York: Nov. 8, 1963 | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

...diary: "Near my home one night I was attacked. I didn't feel the blows. It was like fists thudding into dead flesh. I saw stars. On the floor I could see it was a policeman hitting me ... The next day I decided to turn over a new leaf and enter the world of the living dead." And he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dead End Kids | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

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