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Aaaa-eeyaa-eeyaa-eeoo! The nostalgic jungle roar echoed from a Marriott hotel in steamy nether Los Angeles last week as four of 15 former screen Tarzans and three of 19 ex-Janes got together to celebrate the centenary of Author Edgar Rice Burroughs' birth. The lung-busting bellow was uttered by beefy Johnny Weissmuller, now 71 and 250 lbs., who starred in twelve Tarzan movies opposite four Janes; he and Tarzan No. 13, Jock Mahoney, 56, got together to heft a shapely Rent-A-Jane in a rippling display of one-apemanship. How far did Tarzan and Jane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: ... And the Tarzan Cult | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

Brooks insists that he nurtures his ego and fends off depression with the aid of Ear-Laff, a tiny device resembling a hearing aid that he purchased from an outfit in the nether reaches of Los Angeles. Whenever he writes, works or performs, Brooks stashes the thing in his ear, where it plays the continual, comforting sound of laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Mr. Ear-Laffs | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

APRIL 7, 1975. Formal opening of the new Orange Line extension. Surely an event not to be missed. Already, the Harvard Square system maps show stops like "Wellington" and "Oak Grove" in that nether world north of North Station. Images conjured up of faraway, exotic places. Never rode the Orange Line before (has anyone?); seems like the perfect time to give...

Author: By William Englund, | Title: In Search of Oak Grove | 4/11/1975 | See Source »

Renaming the nether parts of his characters after the Supreme Court Justices who voted to allow communities to set their own pornography standards is one of Gore Vidal's gentler touches in Book II of the Breckinridge saga. It is an invidiously amusing camp fantasy which seems to have been inspired in equal parts by Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and Claude Rains' Mr. Jordan movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Myra Lives! | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...perhaps 400 people. But what about my 200,000,000 compatriots? I have a vague premonition that one day I will scream out to all those 200,000,000. But for the moment I do not utter a sound, and the escalator carries me irresistibly to the nether world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Solzhenitsyn: An Artist Becomes an | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

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