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...while I typed in the bathroom. I thought bathrooms were safe until a .50-cal. bullet smashed through a balcony into a fourth-floor room, penetrated the bathroom wall, shattered the mirror and landed, spent, in the bathtub. The hotel was indirectly pasted by Rudolph the Recoilless Rifle, a monstrous weapon stationed outside by the army. Every time Rudolph was fired, its deafening blast shattered one more of the windows in the lobby walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Incommunicado in Amman | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

Hitler's uniqueness lay in the monstrous size and paranoid consistency of his dreams. By wedding neoclassicism to his Kampf, he killed the style for good. Dictators (and even democrats) of the future will need to find another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hitler as Architect | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...knee in the groin. Children shrill the Gypsy Song, break into a tapdance and a pianist plays an ornate set of embellishments on the first phrase of the Habañera; he knows all the tricks but cannot remember the melody. The Card Song is swallowed by a monstrous Dies Irae, and everything ignites into a Moog-synthesized musical holocaust. The montage of electronic sound forms a requiem on the word "love," with tunes and characters zooming by like meteoric memories. After a final shriek, only Hess's voice remains, sadly singing: "That's how it is, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Women's Lib Carmen | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

Shoe manufacturers insist that next fall will see a "more feminine" look to shoes. It seems a safe prediction: monsters could hardly get more monstrous. Meantime, with a summer still to get through, the only feasible alternative remains that old standby-the black-soled, five-toed barefoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Monsters | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

...best of an exemplary cast, Joanna Shimkus abruptly leaves behind a parade of elongated walk-ons (The Lost Man, Boom!) to become an authentic actress. Almost any beautiful woman could perform the film's love scenes, but few could engage so well in the skirmishes. Yvette's monstrous maiden Aunt Cissie

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fast Company | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

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