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...face smeared with seal blood to cut down ice glare and prevent chapping, grabs a 60-lb. pup by a hind flipper, whacks it on its soft skull, spins the pup over, punctures the throat and then neatly skins away pelt, flippers and blubber with swift strokes of a razor-sharp knife. The process commences at dawn, continues until dark and turns the once pristine ice into an ugly palette of dirtied snow, crimson blood sprays and grotesquely skinned carcasses. Watching this month's carnage TIME Correspondent Dick Duncan concluded: "Somehow in the savagely beautiful surroundings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Days of the Long Knives | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...Jules Feiffer's first full-length play, about a family living in a psychotic New York milieu of impending violence and violated privacy, still seems a series of animated cartoons spliced together rather than an organic drama. Director Alan Arkin and a resourceful cast do, however, achieve some razor-sharp social observation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 7, 1969 | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...therapy at a Paris sanatorium, and toward the bright end of self-realization. Rooks sees most of his life from a hospital bed in a series of intricate overlapping flashbacks that add up to a collage of visions, ranging from drug-inspired distortion to moments of near lucidity. A razor-sharp editing job and imaginative juxtaposition of black-and-white and color succeed as few films have in suggesting how alcoholic and narcotic hallucinations appear to the beholder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Self as Hero | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...they are, the family resemblance is faint. Although the Vienna Philharmonic responded to Bernstein's exuberant beat with a reasonable facsimile of the razor-sharp New York sound, it played for Bohm with the familiar tone that has made it one of the outstanding groups in orchestral history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orchestras: How It Should Be Played | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...George Lincoln Rockwell [Sept. 1] was not a common hatemonger or backwoods bigot. He was the embodiment of forensic eloquence and razor-sharp intelligence, both of which had been honed to a hair-thin cutting edge. His physical stature emitted strength as well as fear. The real tragedy of Commander Rockwell's demise is that such quality and potential leadership were befouled by a twisted alignment with a vociferous band of homicidal psychopaths and miscellaneous social rejects. It is my sincere conviction that if this man had not permitted himself to become encased in the morass that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 15, 1967 | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

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