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...PROBABLY started laughing at the loser in grade school gym class--you know, the kid who could never do a somersault without slipping on his shoelaces on the uptake. He had banana peel appeal. By the time he hit high school he'd mastered the art of the somersault and maybe even a cartwheel but when it came to girls he'd usually slip off his social shoelaces just often enough to give the cool kids a yuk or two. Well, losers grow up and when they start making their first twenty or thirty thousand, people stop laughing at them...

Author: By Irene Lacher, | Title: The Objectively Subjective Woody Allen | 7/8/1975 | See Source »

...Admiral," a half-deaf, near-blind British dowager who always seems to be bellowing for an elevator that never comes; and the defiantly gay Princess Bili, whose frenzied affection is divided between an absent Italian gigolo and an ever-present Sealyham dog that "sings" D'ye Ken John Peel? Waiting upon this odd lot of aging Everymen is an equally bizarre collection of German, Swiss, French and Italian servants who trade ethnic insults and intrigue against (and occasionally fall in love with) one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love at the Table d'H | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

...hell, Henry!" On the big crisis night, Kissinger, back in his Washington office, paced, ordering, listening, waiting. He flashed the V sign out the window once, and then, humor fully restored in the exhilaration of action, he made a lunging movement toward the window as he began to peel off his coat-Henry K into Super K. Deep laughter from the onlookers, buoyed up by the old-style American confidence, echoed up Pennsylvania Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: An Old-Fashioned Kind of Crisis | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

...entire film, mostly he grunts and stutters, but he comes from a culture which doesn't put much value on words anyway: the people who talk a lot in Shampoo are branded liars, most notably the imposed, looming presence's of Nixon and Agnew. George just wants to peel off his jeans and hump, hump, hump, and hump more. Strangely enough, all the women around seem to want to do the same thing. I don't want to hear anything more about Peter Fonda in Easy Rider--George the hairdresser is more interesting and significant if we're talking about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

...Testament remained a formidable challenge to the critics. At the beginning of the 20th century, liberal scholars were still trying to peel back layers of the miraculous and the mythical to find out what the historical Jesus really taught. The Jesus that some of the searchers found was a mild-mannered ethical preacher, definitely not God incarnate. But Missionary-Philosopher Albert Schweitzer suggested that the real Jesus would be an embarrassment, that he had been a misguided fanatic who proclaimed an imminent apocalypse and died to bring it about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BIBLE:THE BELIEVERS GAIN | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

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