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...haggard, laggard spy, Harvey is a stereotypical pawn of the politburo; as his most persistent bedmate, Mia Farrow is a soft sprite whose eyes are larger than her role. The stars are outshone by the supporting players, including Tom Courtenay as a psychotic British agent and Per Oscarsson as his junkie Russian counterpart, hopelessly in love with the heroin. Fortunately, they give Aspic some flavor as it moves toward a credibly tragic end, when Harvey suspects the game is up and utters the burnt-out lament: "I feel like a whore in a creaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Dandy in Aspic | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...collage requires an agile audience. The leap between words and meaning is enormous; to make it is to participate in the art. Dylan's words, falling out of time and place, often admit of no leap. "In ceremonies of the horsemen even the pawn must hold a grudge." Does the charge come from sound or meaning? Is this communication or anarchy? If anarchy, one wants to know why so many of us respond because Dylan is not alone, only ahead of other pop artists and singers, all the masters of the put-on. Once upon a time we had Ruby...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: Bob Dylan | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...year. The city, which pays teachers from $5,800 to $10,000, offered $600 and a one-week school-year reduction. Governor George Romney ruled out any increase in state funds to boost salaries and insisted it was "intolerable that the education of children should be used as a pawn in negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teachers: Test of Strength | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

...turning from the slow, difficult tasks of true growth toward the easier course-feeding his people's hunger with visions of revenge on Israel. Russia chose to arm the fantasy. In the end, Nasser bluffed and blustered himself into war and defeat, and mortgaged his country as a pawn of the Soviet power struggle against the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ARABIA DECEPTA: A PEOPLE SELF-DELUDED | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

Object of the Game: to be the first player to move your pawn-supposedly a Viet Cong defector-from either of the two starting squares (1) to the Open Arms defection centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: HOW TO PLAY THE GAME OF DEFECTION | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

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