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...Mayor Joan Poulos takes a relaxed view, suggesting that not every last area of sexual segregation has to be battered down. After all, some Davis women's groups, including the Soroptimists, continue to bar men. And, she notes, "no serious public business is conducted at Ro tary Club luncheons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Rights v. Rotarians | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...frigidity, try caviar and red peppers, both rich in the reputed aphrodisiac vitamin E. Even better are "limited doses of dry wines." Or for a special lift turn on suitably sensual, rhythmically erotic background music such as Ravel's Boléro and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. If all else fails, why not shudder a little with an electric vibrator, used sparingly, of course, so that "a woman will not become more attracted to it than to her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: From Russia with Love | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...voice from the tape, and at least three witnesses to the kidnaping were said to have identified him by photo as one of the two black men who, accompanied by a young white woman, burst into the Hearst apartment. Authorities were also looking for another prison escapee, The-ro M. Wheeler, 29, a jail acquaintance of DeFreeze's, who at one time was active in a California revolutionary Maoist group known as Venceremos. At week's end an intensified search for the two escapees, both of whom have been at large for months, had turned up nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Ordeal of a Political Prisoner | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...complishment, my sorcery, and now I am at the apex of a cycle that includes the notoriety. But this is the last thing I will ever write about Don Juan. Now I am going to be a sorcerer for sure. Only my death could stop that." It is a ro mantic role, this anthropological ges ture across a pit of entities which, in a different age, would have been called demons. Will Castaneda become the Dr. Faustus of Malibu Beach, attended by Mephistopheles in a sombrero? Stay tuned in for the next episode. In the meantime, his books have made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don Juan and the Sorcerer's Apprentice | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...still writes with Victorian verve, and each of her chapters ends with an upbeat sentence that impels the reader on. But Miss du Maurier's latest novel lacks the suspense, pageantry and ro mantic insight of Rebecca, French man's Creek or even the recent best-selling House on the Strand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recapturing the Flag | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

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