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Nagin and Temin and Miss Tolliver have harder jobs, but they fail for many of the same reasons as the others. In the scene where Teacher comes home drunk and tries to talk to the insolent, isolated Andri, Temin and Nagin could have developed a beautiful pattern of slurred overture...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: Andorra | 11/6/1965 | See Source »

Edward Ruscha, 27, limns with the same T-square edge precision that is the trademark of hard-edged pop. But to him, "Andy Warhol's soup cans are too syrupy sweet." Ruscha prefers to paint what he calls "facts," words, corporate symbols or even filling stations, which he sees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artists: G31152Oct. 15, 1965 | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

For anyone who loves a parade the military spectacle has the spit and polish, precision, pomp and pageantry that only the British can bring off-an act that will still be burnished bright when the Beatles are balding, a martial display that could convert a Quaker. The near capacity opener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectacles: So Forget the Beatles | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

"And you must quote me precisely," she said, looking at the reporter's notes. "If it's going to be me it has to be me. Reporting must have the same precision as poetry."

Author: By Nancy H. Davis and Linda G. Mcveigh, S | Title: 'Mary Poppins' Creator Arrives At Whitman Hall | 10/6/1965 | See Source »

There are a lot of children on my block. When they wake me up in the morning it sounds as if there must be a million of them. At evening in the summer, when the sun goes down on these rooftops, they are all over the sidewalks. On the steps...

Author: By Jonathan Kozol, | Title: Why I Moved Into Roxbury | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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