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...simian grimaces, the compulsive wiping of a sweaty upper lip, the glazed smile after fluffed lines, we'll realize that Richard Nixon just isn't in the rain-maker league. Then there will be the handful of optimists who start keeping count. waiting for the dove and the rainbow. But even they will finally learn to reject Biblical nostalgia, and accept the rain as part of life...

Author: By Nina Bernstein, | Title: Cabbages and Kings The Rain | 11/13/1969 | See Source »

...been whispering for years: Goldman shows how theater-party ladies create big box-office receipts for shows involving no visible talent on the basis of a show's title ( How Now Dow Jones ); how a star can take over and destroy a $600,000 musical (Eydic Gorme and Golden Rainbow ); how critics mercilessly destroy the rare good Broadway play (Clive Barnes and I Never Sang for My Father...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: From the Shelf The Death of Broadway | 11/1/1969 | See Source »

...render," says Baker, "is to grab a subject like oceanography or lasers, which don't instantly suggest color, and illuminate a whole area that might otherwise be buried in scientific texts." And sometimes, too, there are those subjects which suggest nothing but color-such as the rainbow-hued fall furs in Modern Living's "The Skin Game" this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Oct. 31, 1969 | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...bravura (and saves him nearly $100,000 a year in samples) is his ability to visualize some 80 different colors in his mind. Like do-it-yourself, fill-in-the-numbers paintings, his designs go off to the factory as line drawings spotted with the numbers of his private rainbow. Invariably, he is pleased with the result. Seeing his Argentine-woven rugs ($700 to $1,500 each) for the first time last week, he remarked simply: "I find these rather superb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Prince of Prints | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...button was white with "Trout Fishing in America, Inc." in green Roman capitals, centered, in four lines. Someone had tossed me the button during an interview. I had expected to see the Great American Wilderness and two rainbow trout in a frying pan. Instead the button was very straightforward. And it was tossed by a girl with long black hair, a purple sweater, and no brassiere. I had put it on without thinking...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: The Resistance: An Obituary | 9/23/1969 | See Source »

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