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Merilee and Sam were also under constant surveillance. The policeman. a plump acne-blessed man, was convinced they were in his village for the purpose of scoring, since no other gringos had ever lingered more than an hour after visiting the ruins. Most of the villagers believed their officer had fallen in love with the bewildering gringa, because he followed her puff puff on a lady's bicycle whenever she appeared on the street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...works of nonfiction, Gardner produced 29 Lam-Cool books under the pseudonym A. A. Fair. All Grass Isn't Green-to be published next week -will be the last in the series, which features the exploits of Donald Lam, a small, smart legman for Bertha Cool, a plump, fortyish female private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Case Closed | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...series opens with Negro women sweeping a street in front of the White House, though the Washington Sanitation Department employs no female street cleaners, black or white). The most amusing tableau involves the Russians' visit to the reading room of a right-wing organization in Texas. The plump, gray-haired attendant happened to be napping when they arrived, and he woke with a jolt that turned to shock when he learned the identity of his visitors. The two Pravda men speculate jokingly that the librarian "was thinking that he had slept through some important event, maybe even an invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Soviet Portrait of America | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...Katie were a man, I would marry her and be faithful to her the rest of my life." So vows Rachel Porter, 21, who is slightly plump, wears her blonde hair in a pert pixy cut, and works as a secretary in a Manhattan publishing firm. Rachel has been seeing Katie Burns, a tall, strikingly handsome private secretary in a large corporation, for three years now, and sharing an apartment with her for three months. Yet Rachel's feelings are mixed. "I don't really say to this day that I am a lesbian," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Four Lives in the Gay World | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...villain in Chaucer, Shakespeare and John Donne. Accordingly, the book lives up and down to its title. It even includes a bit of anonymous erotica-"The Autobiography of a Flea," whose expository style even Nabokov might envy. "I was engaged," begins the flea, "upon professional business connected with the plump white leg of a young lady of some 14 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Six-Legged Hero | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

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