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...many women these days--Claudia Dreifus, Elizabeth Gould Davis--are obsessed with the need for righteous feminist indignation not to mention that it seems to sell well. So they diligently lace their writing with feminine wrath. But Tucker doesn't use sex as a ploy to draw attention to the book. In this way The Woman's Eye is a refreshing contrast to the usual collection of photographs. There are no glamor portraits, sex symbols or Earth Mothers ("Nude women have floated in still ponds, been massaged by rushing waters, prayed at the base of phallic trees, and danced...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: The Woman's Eye | 3/6/1974 | See Source »

...sounds annoyingly bookish, sprinkled with words like "precautious" and "warpedness." Such a style is perfectly suited to Grandfather's verbose monologues and tall tales, but it doesn't sound right coming from the other more down-to-earth characters. Bitto tosses in an occasional four-letter word, but this ploy fails to add any realism...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: Moral Melodrama | 3/2/1974 | See Source »

...most of the other players. It's that freedom of motion that separates me." Another Erving trick: in mid-dribble he palms the ball with his right hand, leaving his left free to fend off opponents, and soars into shooting or passing position without losing a step. The ploy, Erving says, "is quicker and more deceptive. You eliminate one move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Doctor's Orders | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

...would be restored to the steel industry. At the same time, Carrington announced that the government was considering extending the work week to four days. Union lead ers promptly charged that the emergen cy measures had been a "gigantic bluff'; others questioned whether the ease-up was a ploy before calling an election. Carrington denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Heath Looks for a Way Out | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...Washington, Roy Ash, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, was busy at the same ploy. His account of the coming year sketched a productive curve hardly dented by the growing energy crisis and the massive threats of world recession. Again, as it should, the word went out. But the correspondents knew that the worries within the Administration were far more profound than Ash stated (and probably believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: A Singular Season of Unreality | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

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