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Worse, says Looney Lewis: "Some of the top strippers these days are guys with silicone treatment around the hips and chest." Mourns Cece of the flaming tassels: "It will never be the same again. I'll never be a Tempest Storm or a Lily St. Cyr. Burlesque is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Grinding to a Halt | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

VIET NAM. The war, which has claimed so many of his sons, leaves the Middle American in a moral perplexity. Most probably agree that the U.S. commitment was a mistake in the first place. Yet they want "an honorable withdrawal." The idea of a U.S. defeat troubles them. Edward Looney, a Brooklyn bus driver, lost a son a year ago; he was killed by a misdirected American shell. "We may find out some day that what we're doing in Viet Nam is wrong," he says, "but until then, it's my country right or wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man and Woman of the Year: The Middle Americans | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...Krazy Kat," though. While Herriman's characters were often somewhat shakily drawn, Crumb's drawings are all well finished products. The style of the strips is a combination of the old Disney style (you may begin counting of the fingers), Herriman's style in "Krazy Kat," Popeye, the old Looney Tunes, Smokey Stover, and Crumb's own additions...

Author: By Charles M. Hagen, | Title: Head Comix | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...usual, people should work actively for the campaign they believe in. A campaigner in Illinois will be collaring blue collar workers and telling them that Wallace is looney. If the polls then show a shift in sentiment giving Wallace a lead over Humphrey, the campaigner will start telling them that Nixon isn't as much of a reactionary as they think and they'd better make it with Wallace soon. But ostensibly being a member of the Humphrey campaign staff, he's in a great position to convert Humphrey votes. And, in fact, it is from the Humphrey camp that...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: A Scheme | 10/30/1968 | See Source »

...FRANCES R. LOONEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1966 | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

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