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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pencil. So too did some ethnic slurs used by Nixon. According to the New York Times, the President referred to Judge Sirica as "that wop," spoke of "those Jewboys" in the Securities and Exchange Commission, and described L. Patrick Gray III, then acting FBI chief, as a "thick-necked mick." According to CBS, Nixon used the word "Jewboy" in referring to Daniel Ellsberg. The White House denies that Nixon used any of those terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Further tales from the transcripts | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones. Sitting here sifting through an envelope bulky with promotional material--billions of those gaping ruby tongues, the usual bizarre scrawlings (remember the postcards from "Exile on Main Street?"), four incredible glossies of Mick, copies of the raves from New York...Facts: 90 minutes, quadraphonic sound (the unit is so swank that it travels with the show, hence the limited engagement), 1972 tour, a lot of fast numbers, no dumb shots of the audience, Music Hall, through Tuesday, 7:30, five and a half bucks, no reserved seats, available at Ticketron but going fast. Clearly...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: THE SCREEN | 5/2/1974 | See Source »

...Roeg's recent Don't Look Now was so stunning that his first two films, now showing at the Welles, deserve a second look. In Walkabout, a father sets his car and himself aflame in the Aussie outback as his terrified family looks on, among other things. Performance has Mick Jagger masquerading as a glittery rock star...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: THE SCREEN | 3/7/1974 | See Source »

...London tabloid, the Sun, to run a photo of a buxom model and her husband baring almost all in watery togetherness. It also inspired a cartoon portraying Prime Minister Edward Heath in a bath telling his butler: "Save gas or not, Perkins, I will not share a bath with Mick McGahey" (Communist official of the mineworkers union). The gas board itself was somewhat startled and not a little amused by the furor raised by the ad. "We never thought of the idea as kinky," said a board spokesman. Not everyone was so lighthearted. Conservative M.P. John Stokes called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Flubbing the Rub-a-Dub-Dub | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

...gets boring--he dodges the cops a while longer and then gets shot up on the beach. Three guesses as to why Jimmy Cliff was so quickly initiated into the local pantheon of counterculture super-stars. This man on the run from the straight world is Easy Rider and Mick Jagger balled...

Author: By Emily Fisher and Richard Turner, S | Title: Thank You Richard Nixon: Ten Movies | 1/24/1974 | See Source »

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