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...best actors in the film are Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (also known as the Phosphorescent Leech and Eddie), who used to sing lead for the Turtles. They helped write the film and do almost all the vocals. It's weird to see them in this sordid film and realize that they are the same people who used to sing "Happy Together" and "I Know She'd Rather Be With...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: 200 Motels | 11/2/1971 | See Source »

...your Press section, the Op-Ed page was described as "pioneered by the Pulitzers in the old New York morning World" [Aug. 10]. It is quite true that Ralph Pulitzer, gentleman, poet and husband of famed Historian Margaret Leech, was publisher of the World during those great days of newspaperdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 31, 1970 | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

With all sense of obstacle removed, The African Queen evokes all the tension of a journey from Harvard Square to Park Street; only once does Huston create a moving conflict, when Allnut, effectively de-leeched, realizes he must go back into the leech-infested swamp in order to extricate the boat from the muddy canal...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: The African Queen | 3/16/1968 | See Source »

...shearing booby traps and dung-smeared punji stakes, of professional skill and personal courage. It is also a war that is tailor-made for a writer like S.L.A. Marshall, who can reconstruct a small-unit action so that it takes on the intimate immediacy of a leech beneath a platoon sergeant's collar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men Facing Death | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...dare display on the cover of a once respectable magazine this case of arrested development, this leech who capitalizes on the female form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 17, 1967 | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

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