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...anglophobe (a part almost too small for the amount of good things he puts into it) does a bit called "The Captains and the Kings" which would be the high point in any Tony Richardson film. And, as far as showstoppers, there is always Joan Tolentino's "Don't Muck About With the Moon"--which time I'm sure she'll have added another stanza...

Author: By Grego J. Kilday, | Title: The Hostage | 7/15/1969 | See Source »

...seating in the park from 3,000 to 30,000 seats is still not complete, and right up until game time Expo General Manager Jim Fanning and a squad of ushers were frantically setting up 6,000 folding chairs. They should have given one to the catchers. Mired in muck up to their ankles, their position was the sloppiest on a field that had been turned into a lumpy, bumpy pasture by the spring thaw. During the day the pitcher's mound sank by a good five inches. Expo Catcher Bateman only half kiddingly suggested that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Au Jeu! | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...life in Newark and New York, in the process establishing himself as a superb social satirist (though, admittedly, the satire of late has been diluted by too much detail and conversation), Roth has now written his first exclusively introspective novel. Having reached the age of 25, he begins to muck about in the depths where he was once content to capture the ironies on the surface. To some extent, the process began in the character of Letting Go's Paul Herz, but where Roth's study of Herz was pedestrian, weighted with many of the conventions of novelistic realism, that...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Portnoy's Complaint | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

...muck-bottomed reservoir could serve as a metaphor for urban malaise. Last week, in the wake of Marcus' cleanup, Jerome Park Reservoir was as spotless as the bottom of a washed soup bowl, but the Lindsay Administration was murky with implications of corruption. In the first major scandal to besmirch Lindsay's two-year-old (out of four) administration, Marcus was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of accepting a $16,000 kickback on the $835,669.39 reservoir cleaning contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Murk from the Reservoir | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...belong to a rather ambiguous generation, many of whom have forgotten what it is all about. The draft dissenters wade through the crumpled bubble-gum wrappers on the streets of our cities waving signs and mumbling chants, but it is the men "over there" that must wade through the muck and mire of war as it really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 17, 1967 | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

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