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At bottom Isadora is a scared feminist, and what troubles her most is what she learned about herself in psychoanalysis. There, she found out about her Oedipal desires, about her masochistic need to be dominated and about her narcisstic need to be admired like the sexy Cover girl--all for...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Love and Loathing | 1/16/1974 | See Source »

One of his conceits is that anyone who has been asleep for two centuries will probably have to grow up all over again. This gives Allen an opportunity to do a zany turn as a toddler set loose in the operating room where he has been revived. Later, he discovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: 2173 and All That | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

Similar arguments are being used to halt offshore oil drilling, including that the sight of a rig might not be aesthetically pleasing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1973 | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

Joey Ferrugia is an instructor/sculptor at the studio, currently having a show at Passim coffee house. Her works are all fired clay--some utilitarian crowd-pleasing bowls and vases, others more aesthetic and esoteric. Her work is centered on the idea that geometric shapes can grow into organic bodies. One...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper, | Title: ...For Whose Sake? | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

It was the fall of 1969 and the White House staff had a problem. During one 30-day period, President Nixon had bombarded his aides with 21 separate memos on unfavorable press coverage of his Administration. His demands that subordinates somehow quell offending journalists and generate more pleasing reportage and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old White House Mood | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

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