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...community, Mean John makes sure that Bickford receives regular doses of harassment. After some puzzling personal encounters and some unprofitable employment, Bickford decides to be the lawless kid everyone suspects he is. He concludes that the only way to save his pride and salvage his honor is to rob the fattest safe in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Desperado for Hire | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

Each time, the pair leaves a minatory message signed AHIAR deploring mistreatment of animals. Press and public think them some sort of crank offshoot of the IRA, but the initials come straight from William Blake: "A Rob in Redbreast in a Cage/ Puts all Heaven in a Rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speaking of Angels | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...ROB RISNER Huntsville, Texas

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 23, 1973 | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...messages more seriously than they ever had before, which makes the job of the critic all the more critical. Movie makers got more pretentious, and superlatives were applied unreservedly to works that would have been laughed at as art ten years ago, as the new media hype began to rob the public of their critical bearings. For Kael, this means that where a movie's mistakes were venial sins in the past, today they are more likely to be mortal. So she keeps hands on holster ready to warn the public of any foul play...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Kael-aesthetics | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...unfair to compare the deprogramming techniques of Ted Patrick and concerned relatives with any "brain-blowing technique" designed to rob the individual of his free will. Anyone who has ever listened to the senseless incantations parroted by members of the Children of God, and observed their unquestioning acceptance of arbitrary authority and misunderstood doctrine, realizes that members of such sects no longer have any free will or individuality. Members of the Children of God and groups like it have abrogated their responsibility and free will in return for easy answers and pseudo security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 2, 1973 | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

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