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...Pill, nearly all laymen consider it a major cause of the new freedom, but a majority of professionals disagree. Because most girls dislike seeing themselves as on the lookout for sex, few go on the Pill until they are having intercourse regularly. Even then, because they are worried about its side effects, almost half choose other means, if indeed they use contraceptives at all. Just the same, Hartsdale, N.Y., Psychiatrist Laurence Loeb believes, the very existence of the Pill has important psychological effects because it means that pregnancy is avoidable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teen-Age Sex: Letting the Pendulum Swing | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

...From the beginning, for instance, he has been fond of ambiguous God jokes: "The message is, God is love, and you should lay off fatty foods." God references appear throughout his films and sketches. In a piece called Mr. Big, Allen, a hard-cooked private I, is on the lookout for the Supreme Being. "Somebody with that description just showed up at the morgue," the cops tell him. "It's the work of an existentialist." How can you tell? he argues. "Haphazard way how it was done. Doesn't seem to be any system followed. Impulse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen: Rabbit Running | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

Another cut, after describing the dangers facing women hitchhikers, cryptically warns, "Wake up the child, there's wolves in the kitchen," Stewart is no wolf, but the conventional male-oriented situations which he evokes uncritically throughout the album is perhaps an indication that we should be on the lookout for enemies more insidious than wolves. The album thrives on swayback women walking by Stewart's side, faithful "women of the road." Stewart has not transcended the "kick-em-out-of-bed and hit-the-road" version of human independence that perhaps many of us accept, too, at least...

Author: By Mickie Kaus, | Title: The Lonesome Picker Rides Again | 11/22/1971 | See Source »

...ordered about 25 customers to lie on the floor, assaulted some of them, took their wallets and laid down a barrage of fire as they left. As the robbers were scattering outside, they were pursued by six carloads of police who had been alerted by the bar's lookout men. In a running gun battle, two cops were wounded, one of them by a shotgun blast. A patrolman chased one robber to a nearby rooftop and shot him twice in the abdomen. Identified by fingerprints, police said, the wounded man was H. Rap Brown, and he was holding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cherry Pie | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

...lookout, however, complained that his eyes were "like organ stops" from "using bins [cockney slang for binoculars] all night" and wanted to complete the job. "I suggest we carry on tonight, mate, and get it done with," he said. "I'm not going to be any good tomorrow morning." Besides, he added, "money is not my god this much." The lookout was overruled and the gang -four or five men and a woman -caught some sleep while Rowlands tried to get the police to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Red-Faced League | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

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