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...paramour ("It's just part of the job," Daltrey maintains); later he sprouts a 10-ft. penis. "A one-foot penis is dirty, but ten feet is funny," says Roger loyally. "There's nothing really all that bad in this movie. I'll let my Mum and kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rock Bottom | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

...take the strongest possible objection to the sentence you have published about me in the Registration Issue of The Harvard Crimson ("Harvard Stays Mum on Greek Bequest"). The sentence reads, "Kaiser would neither confirm nor deny the report..." That is a deliberately misleading sentence, inasmuch as your use of "would" implies that you asked me to confirm or deny a report that the Greek government had given Harvard one million dollars. The simple fact is that your reporter never even mentioned such a rumor in either of our two telephone conversations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A QUESTION OF WORDS | 9/19/1975 | See Source »

...television interviews, she willingly posed for an official birthday photo, and her royal family planned a black-tie dinner at Buckingham Palace complete with Scottish pipers, a three-tiered birthday cake and, rumor had it, some spoof gifts from Grandson Prince Charles. As one admirer explained, the "Queen Mum" has always enjoyed a good "legpull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 11, 1975 | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

...Animals," in that the earth mother theme is played up: she wears long dresses, her full voice moans for sheer bulk--the images are supposed to be security, ripeness. Nothing whines and the come-on is not overly sexual; on certain numbers, particularly when her still-mediocre band keeps mum and lets the piano alone back her up, the sound is enveloping and strong. It's refreshing to have a female vocalist who isn't easily thrust into categories, especially weak and wispy ones. But Nelson is limited potential at best even so, and if a performance last spring...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: ROCK | 7/22/1975 | See Source »

...Shearer of Parade magazine learned from a crewman on the Glomar Explorer, the Howard Hughes ship, about the quest and tried to confirm it through Hughes' Summa Corp., without success. Alerted by Summa, Colby some months later reached Shearer, confirmed the basic facts and persuaded him to keep mum, arguing that recovery of the sub might yield some "ultrasecret" Soviet coding equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Show and Tell? | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

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