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The event is skillfully and elaborately staged, but wildly overwrought. The announcer at the premiere is made up to look like Hitler, and his excitement drives the crowd to greater excesses of violence. It moves like a marauding army. Not only are people trampled and windows broken, but fires start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The 8th Plague | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

But Connally's unlimited financial resources and shrewd political mind will help to offset those weaknesses. Through all his troubles. Connally stood far above the gray men of Nixon's administration. In a fight between the leaders of the poles of the party. Reagan and Rockefeller, he might be an...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: An Uncertain Vindication | 4/23/1975 | See Source »

The airport itself was sealed. Still, the comparatively wealthy managed to get out by buying small fishing boats in neighboring villages at handsome prices. Many were quick to take as an ominous sign the discreet departure of the Poles and Hungarians, local representatives of the moribund International Commission of Control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: TOWARD THE FINAL AGONY | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

Such usage, Fairlie asserts, simplifies social phenomena in such a way as to isolate and segregate: thus, for example, " 'ethnics' are separated from nonethnics...the words themselves put people in 'ghettos,' and freeze them at opposite poles. It is in this way that we are manipulated by the words we...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Defense of the Indefensible | 1/22/1975 | See Source »

The bearded vet stopped for a moment because it took all his concentration to use his two ski poles with small runners on them and his one good leg to ease around the U-turn in the line.

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: Mr. Ford's Holiday | 1/16/1975 | See Source »

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