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...response of Afro-Asian delegates who had voted for the Zionism resolution was predictably cold. Pakistan's Iqbal Akhund made the observation that no nation "has a monopoly on righteousness or self-righteousness," while Saudi Arabia's irrepressible Jamil Baroody offered a mock resolution forgiving "the illustrious Daniel Patrick Moynihan for any misconceptions he may have formed about the U.N. during his sojourn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Shock Waves from an Infamous Act | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...invitations came in the form of a subpoena, and the party itself took place in an abandoned Los Angeles jail. Guests included Performers Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland and Jacqueline Bisset, who were frisked, photographed and fingerprinted at the door. The mock lockup was all in honor of Author Truman Capote, who is currently in Hollywood portraying a criminologist who becomes a victim in Murder By Death, his first movie as an actor instead of a screenwriter. Capote allowed as how a night in the slammer was welcome respite from his daytime job. "Making movies is hard work," burbled Truman. "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 29, 1975 | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...seminar at the Law School Nesson observes a mock courtroom trial, looking fascinated. As the student prosecutor catches a witness in an apparent contradiction, Nesson smiles and nods his head approvingly, as if he has just witnessed a dancer executing a difficult pirouette...

Author: By Ron Davis, | Title: The Happy Legal Life of Charles Nesson | 12/17/1975 | See Source »

...disagreeable aspects of menstruation. There are, indeed, a few amusing moments in it, but for the most part the film consists of naked women standing on a hilltop, legs spread apart, with a most unusual, watery, lurid pinkish substance gusing down their legs. The humorous highlights are a mock communion scene in which codeine tablets are taken in place of wafers and menstrual blood is drunk in lieu of wine, and when some woman with a sanitary napkin hooked up over her clothing, leaping about, stomps up and down on a box of Kotex. It's all rather artsy...

Author: By Sarah Crichton, | Title: Hookers, Housewives and Bad Blood | 12/13/1975 | See Source »

...books. I figured, what would I like? I wouldn't want these card-board figures who are just one-dimensional--a character who's all good, and the villains are all bad. And at the end of the story, the villain loses and the hero wins." He continues, with mock earnesty, "I figured there must be more to life than that. So we came up with heroes who worried about dandruff, allergy attacks, bad colds, fallen arches, acne, bad breath. And we came up with some villains who we tried to make lovable. We tried to get a little satire...

Author: By Steve Chapman, | Title: Who is the Newest, Most Breath-Taking, Most Sensational Super-Hero of All...? | 12/3/1975 | See Source »

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