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...really bored and in a way I feel useless just sitting around." Pankhurst said. Southwick, while aware of the tedium problem, explained it as "a function of people not knowing how to relax." "Now that the Convention is underway, the tedium will diminish pretty rapidly," he said

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miami Starts Slowly . . . . . . McGovern Is Optimistic | 7/11/1972 | See Source »

...graveyards it maintains. At Mount Carmel there is a lake stocked with fish for local anglers. Although the idea came from people who bicycled to visit family plots, John Philbin, director of the archdiocesan cemeteries, admits that "some of the lot holders are uptight." Yet most of them relax once they realize that gamboling does not take place on the graves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Living Find New Use for Hallowed Ground | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

...that Frenzy isn't really "about" anything (except, as with most suspense films, man against the modern world), all the main characters illustrate the notion that violent streaks and clandestine desires are natural and sometimes even make sense. The Scotland Yard inspector who sneaks his meat and eggs (to relax from his wife's humorously perverse French cooking) understands the embittered flyman who can so rage while talking to an unapproving ex-wife that he breaks a wine glass in his hand and does not feel the pain...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Frenzy | 7/7/1972 | See Source »

...Sunshine. A few other aspects of the comic's life are new: his steady girl friend Diane Keaton, for instance, the best friend's winsomely sympathetic wife in Play It Again, Sam. He has learned how to relax by playing a competent clarinet with a traditional Dixieland band in public-sans gags. But Allen remains wedded to a demonic schedule. "Woody's life is his work," says Diane. "He is just not a relaxer. I can't imagine him lounging around the pool in the sunshine in that white skin." Admits Woody: "I have to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen: Rabbit Running | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...Your article on South Africa's "HighRise Apartheid" [May 15] left me violently outraged. May I ask how 60,000 people, most of whom are married, can "live and relax . . .under pleasant conditions," which include no heat, sex-segregated rooms, no elevators, no electrical outlets and five bathtubs per 100 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1972 | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

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