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Sir: Elliott Gould's complaints do run on. His parents are incompetent louses, the man who started him in show business is a Fagin, the bust-up of his marriage is all what's-her-name's fault, and all his directors are just jerks in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 28, 1970 | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

Antonio is partially snapped back to reality by hearing a recording of a fraudulently liberal speech he once delivered to his workers. As he returns to his place at the head of the company's conference table, though, he can do no better than recite his previous year'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Garlic and Sapphires | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

She walks the arena stage in twisting little circles, like a caged animal. Not a really wild animal, but a poorly domesticated one-petulant rather than fierce, caught in a thicket of heavy-legged furniture. At one moment of electric outrage, she turns her back to the audience, raises clenched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Private Masterpiece | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

Hungary's MALEV flies only Russian aircraft. Its pilots are competent at take-offs and landings, but specialize in bouncy flights in between. Stewardesses are petulant but pretty. MALEV rates second after CSA in ground efficiency. Budapest's airport is dowdy, but its restaurant is better than most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Guide to Adventurous Flying | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

ONE SUCH spectacle, as it turned out, was the Chicago conspiracy trial. The portrayal of the defendants in the national media as petulant, effeminate hippies was readily absorbed by an audience which had long been fed on the media's anti-radical biases. At a time when the majority of...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: The Conspiracy Spectacle | 4/16/1970 | See Source »

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