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...attack. Little Regan just gets filthier and filthier and when she's exorcized the movie has to end because it took all its bang from the fake effects Regan gets so foul that you go home feeling laundered like a golden girl. You also feel laundered in muck. People must be hard up for highs, or bored, or both...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Screaming Yellow Zombies | 1/25/1974 | See Source »

...Ireland to hear a Latin Mass and make their confessions, it dispatches young Father James Kinsella (adroitly underplayed by Martin Sheen) to put down the insurrection. Fashionable in Castroesque fatigues and shouldering a musette bag, Kinsella drops by helicopter into the rebel stronghold, an ancient island monastery called Muck Abbey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...button reading "Dodo Power," in the hope of dramatizing the urgency of the situation: the flightless bird was extinct only 186 years after Europeans landed on its home island of Mauritius. "The dodo was part of a delicate spider web that connects us all," says Durrell. "Every time you muck about with that web, it sends tremors all the way through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Animal Farm | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...that we were going the wrong way. But you know what happens when you drop your oar? It may throw you out of the boat. Well, finally I did drop my oar, and I've been trying to swim to shore ever since-through a lot of muck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hearts and Flowers from John Dean | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...London sex scandal that has ousted two members of the Heath regime detoured into Fleet Street last week. It developed that two giant Sunday papers had been involved in questionable Peeping Tom activities while competing for salacious muck. The News of the World (circ. 6,000,000) revealed that one of its photographers had taken sneak pictures of Lord Lambton romping in bed with Prostitute Norma Levy and another doxy. NOW's rival, the Sunday People (circ. 4,600,000) admitted paying for film and tapes of Norma's upper-crust bedroom festivities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rivals in the Muck | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

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