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...were just as crowded, the mannequins as crisp and undernourished, the designers every bit as giddy and harassed as usual. The French fall fashion collections last week attacked the same urgent questions (whither hemlines? whether bosoms?), but the answers were not expected to come out of Paris alone. The punch is there still, but not the power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Punch, Oui; Power, Non | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

...another commercial, a woman at a crowded cocktail party asks her husband to say something funny. "General Telephone," he replies, and everyone falls into paroxysms of laughter. The punch line: "We know some people think our service is laughable, but we're spending $200 million in California this year to improve it. What's so funny about that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Mea Culpa Campaign | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

...bottle. The system was conceived primarily as a countermeasure to the Soviet ABM. By multiplying the number of warheads, the reasoning went, the U.S. would be able to penetrate Russian defenses. In addition, MIRV was regarded as a hedge against the huge Soviet SS-9s, which have the punch to destroy Minutemen even in their hardened silos. Laird's critics make the persuasive point that if the Soviets are willing to limit their ABM defenses to Moscow, which seems likely, and to cease S59 deployments, the U.S. should be willing to phase out its MIRVs. Since the Russians have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SALT: A Sprinkling of Hope | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

...Lauren Bacall, 45, in Applause-and visibly annoyed when Manhattan's press photographers spoiled her getaway act. When one especially persistent reporter tracked her quarry all the way home, she got more than a picture. "Get away from me, you little brat," hissed Katie, "or I'll punch you in the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 20, 1970 | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

...taken a heavy hand in his zooms, tracking shots, cuts, and dissolves in a desperate attempt to obscure the transparency of Israel Horovitz's script. Horovitz himself is a very concerned, intelligent man, and even makes a cameo appearance in this movie, but his screenplay has little of the punch of his plays like Rats, or The Indian Wants the Bronx. One thing to be said in his favor is that he is not entranced with adolescent lingo. The director on the other hand has taken the movie as a challenge; how to create the most accurate social document...

Author: By Laurence Bergreen, | Title: Coming to the Cinema II The Strawberry Statement | 7/10/1970 | See Source »

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