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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knight's dailies are all locally oriented. "I would rather miss the big national story," says Beacon Journal Publisher and Executive Editor Ben Maidenburg. "The reader is going to get that on TV or the New York Times or the newsmagazines. I would rather get that Rotary Club meeting or the Junior Chamber of Commerce story instead." That fits in with Knight's thinking. "It is our obligation to print a lot of local news," he says. "We do very well at it; sometimes, I must confess, to the point where I feel it is boring." To report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishers: The Chain That Doesn't Bind | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...granted, but not one of your big themes--hardly an equivalent to Resnais's concern with time or Lang's with fate. Demy's constructs lack true vision, instead wallow joyously in the mechanical: lovers wander marionette-like (often singing) looking for their true loves, forced by Demy to miss one another by seconds until the romantic pay-off at the finale...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort | 5/16/1968 | See Source »

...that adult freedom of expression which films have pre-empted in recent years. Sometimes stage nudity is irrelevant, as in Bruce Jay Friedman's Scuba Duba, where a woman, both topless and pendulous, runs purposelessly down a flight of stairs. On the other hand, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, it enhances a scene of lyric sensuousness in which a girl models for her artist-lover with her back to the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Hair | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...absorb the gas and I'll be able to breathe long enough to cool the cannister with a CO(2) fire extinguisher and pick it up with my asbestos gloves and throw it back at the cops. Someone tells me that he can't get busted or he'll miss his shrink again...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low, Part II | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...College, because they feel they would be "supporting certain policies which we found antithetical to our needs during our years at Radcliffe." The letter specifically refers to Radcliffe raising money to build a fourth House, and not for scholarships or subsidies to let students live off-off campus. Miss Balter, in charge of soliciting the senior class, has called the letter "very lovely . . . calm and reasonable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tactical Victory | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

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