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...there is a quick cut to a truck spewing exhaust. There are, in addition, the usual number of shafts directed at high-priced psychiatrists, high-pressure businessmen and-everybody's favorite-middle-class hypocrisy. These are bruised, battered and safe targets that are certain to survive such limp assaults as The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker...

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

...digitalis. David Hemmings, swishing about in a limp-wristed parody of his fashion-photographer role in Blow Up, furnishes the film's few diverting moments. Most of the cast, including Law, are automatons whose flagrant absence of talent does full justice to their material. Miss Cannon, usually a decent actress, here seems rather strung-out, and Ryan, even when he is not supposed to be in the throes of thrombosis, persists in looking sorely but understandable pained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Valley of the Dregs | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

...almost envision happy, laughing naked people swarming around gaily decorated mobile homes. But now, Mel says, the remaining members are mostly middle-aged and elderly couples who come out only on the warm weekends. The grandiose pool is empty, tennis and volleyball courts are unused, nets hanging limp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Decline of Nudism | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

About 30 arrests were made and at least two demonstrators were beaten unconscious, while others were shoved against buses and trucks. When medics attempted to treat one unconscious youth, police told them he was under arrest and dragged his limp body away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Demonstration | 5/7/1971 | See Source »

Demonstrators offered no resistance; many went limp when confronted by police. The CDU dragged at least 40 down the steep concrete steps after holding them up by their collars to photograph them...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: 1200 Arrested on Capitol Steps | 5/6/1971 | See Source »

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