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...intruder, excellently played by Sean Connery, promises a rare amusement. Lately, an epidemic has swept through the population, leaving its victims--called "apathetics"--looking like rag dolls. The expression of bemused revulsion on Connery's face when the apathetics, dramatically geritolized by the sweat on his body, paw him with open lust, is a high point of the film...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: Looking Forward | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

Legal Sparring. But then he pulled some taut strings- on it. The President said that he would not allow anyone "to cart everything that is in the White House down to a committee and to have them paw through it on a fishing expedition." Next day his lawyer, James St. Clair, sent a letter to the committee rejecting its request for evidence beyond what Jaworski had acquired. St. Clair complained that the committee seemed to be asking for "hundreds of thousands of documents and thousands of hours of recorded conversations covering the widest variety of subjects." He suggested that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Pushing Ahead the Impeachment Inquiry | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...give off clusters of "sparks." One of the more unusual shapes to emerge in Life's repertory of patterns is the "Cheshire cat," 1 4. It gradually changes and shrinks until, after six genertions, only the "grin," 15, is left. Finally it reaches a stable pattern: a "paw print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flop of the Century? | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...KISS FOR MOTHER by Tomi Ungerer. 40 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $5.95. Piper Paw is a bad-hat young cat who cannot abide being called Honey Pie by his mother, Mrs. Velvet Paw. Nor can he stand her icky kisses. After plying the little creep with Casserole of Mole Innards, mother finally slaps son into silence. He buys her yellow roses and they come to a kissless domestic stalemate that is better than their sweet-and-sour past. A very sharp and funny book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Other Notables | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...seventh inning, though, Oriole catcher Andy' Etchebarren lashed a three-run home run to left to tie the game at 4-4. Against loser and reliever Rollie Fingers, Bobby Grich opened the eighth with another four-sacker to ice it at 5-4. South-paw Grant Jackson got the Baltimore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mets Whip Reds, Enter Series; O's Beat A's to Tie Playoffs | 10/11/1973 | See Source »

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