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...heroine of the piece, you'll remember, is Charlotte A. Cavatica, the helpful spider who saw Wilbur the pig through some pretty rough times. She saved his life and also taught him to understand and accept death. It is a very important lesson, one I was particularly glad to see the movie people had not altered for the sake of a happy ending. Physically, however, my friends and I look different from Mr. Garth Williams' definitive illustrations in the book. We have been made cuter, which I suppose is nothing to complain about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Communication Received | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...kind of peroxide Tarzan (Jan-Michael Vincent) and import him from Africa to bring athletic glory to the campus. The jokes are either raucously insipid or coyly racist (Africans and their quaint primitive ideas). Vincent seems very much in his element swinging from a vine. Conway sounds like Porky Pig after speech therapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...Graham and others, she was listed as a "black community leader.") "If you explain to someone enough good reasons to wash, then they'll wash. I'm not going to say that I know what's good for girls all the time--I guess I'm a male chauvinist pig from way back. But I think that money is in the wrong place. That kid from Riverside who died last summer could just as easily been a girl: dope doesn't care. If it's a hotshot, you're going. Black people used to cut their skins and put bones...

Author: By Harry Hurt, | Title: 'Unbenign Neglect' at the Cambridge YRB.... | 2/21/1973 | See Source »

...long time, the I.R.A. was winning. By 1972 it had bombed the Protestant Unionist Government at Stormont out of existence. Indeed, only seven months ago, the Proves were still, in the words of one Ulster politician, "on the pig's back." They, more than any other group, held the key to peace or war. Britain's Secretary for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, was dealing with them as a major power, flying them to London in an R.A.F. plane for secret political talks. MacStiofain even got the British to release an internee from prison camp to join the I.R.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Reflections on Agony and Hope | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...states and Canada. Before long, the station, which also broadcasts the Boston Bruins' games, had some grievances of its own: McCarthy dismissed Bruin President Weston Adams Jr. as "the biggest jerk I ever met," while Andelman described Boston Garden, the Bruins' home rink, as "a pig pen, a garbage pit. Even Vincent Price wouldn't shoot a horror movie there." When WBZ, reportedly under pressure from the Bruins, dropped the show in May 1971, 2,000 Sports Huddle loyalists staged a demonstration in the station's parking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Boston Badmouths | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

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