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...dressing down. Though the Dutch were bound to suffer from their consistently pro-Israeli foreign policy over the years, many Dutchmen believed Van der Stoel's outspokenness - and Den Uyl's approval of Van der Stoel's views - goaded the Arabs to make an exam ple of Holland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS,GREECE: The Souring of the Dutch | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

That Abbie Hoffman set a bad exam ple for John Mitchell and that the for mer chief law officer of the land was very impressionable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Scrambling to Break Clear of Watergate | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

Graham is a lot more interesting than the musical talent on display, which is mostly mediocre. The Grate ful Dead and the New Riders of the Pur ple Sage, virtually interchangeable parts of the same group, dispense a couple of good tunes, but Santana and Boz Scaggs are disappointing compared with some of their recent recordings. As for the Elvin Bishop Group and Quicksilver Messenger Service, they sound like washouts from Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Last Rites | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

...openness, dapple with swift strokes of green, with a black line rising through it like the faintly swaying mast of a ship. In such work, Motherwell's address to sensation is marvelously candid. "In a way," he says, "painting is like wine: it is as old, as sim ple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of ex pression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Sense of Exuberance | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

...have enlisted the assistance of several churches to ensure interdenominational felicity. They are also taking out options to buy the land surrounding the park to prevent the appearance of anything so desecrating as "cheap souvenir joints." The expensive souvenir joints will apparently be inside Holyland, presumably in the tem ple with the money-changers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Visit Heaven and Hell! | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

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