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End Products. By comparison, Tillie's life has hardly any fizz at all. Serious, well-trained in sociology, she meets a gimp-legged skirt-chaser and hopeless vulgarian named Pete Seltzer. His public wit runs to doubletalk and the invention of nonsense "end" products: after-shaving mints, dietetic shampoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whim and Welfscfimerz | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Apart from the payola controversy, the big news of the week was the almost monotonous parade of Americans to the victory pedestal. There were elev en boxing weight classes in Mexico City, and U.S. boxers won medals in seven of them. In yachting. New Orleans' Buddy Friedrichs and San...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Parade to the Pedestal | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

There are other signs that the costume look may get out of hand. Sculptress Marisol finds the speed with which costumes change puzzling and hard to keep up with. Ex-Model Wilhelmina worries because "I want to be a lady in the long run, not a teen-ager." Alexander'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Instant Originals | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Most of the Living Theater's pieces are exercises in the manipulation of crowd emotions. Whatever does not actively irritate is designed to produce a kind of mesmeric communal hysteria. One piece finds Julian Beck sitting cross-legged in the middle of the stage. In a voice of clerical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: Shock Troops of the Avant-Garde | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

To most dyed-in-the-silks thoroughbred fans, quarter-horse racing is not horse racing at all. When it comes to purity of breeding, the quarter-horse wins no prizes; a chunky, bandy-legged brute, it looks almost grotesque next to the sleek, stately thoroughbred. Besides, what railbird wants to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: Dollars for Quarters | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

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