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...living naked," as Horovitz calls it, seems to be something stretching beyond his plays. He speaks of whatever he has done with great passion and amusement. "I was really a very flexible young man. I go back to me sitting in my bedroom, mixing beer, coffee, hot chocolate, and scotch, drinking it down, and throwing up all over the bedroom floor, thinking I'd really found something. And hearing about peyote-almost poisoning myself by chewing on something like the root of a tiger lily, running around pulling up weeds, and almost poisoning myself. And it all made sense because...

Author: By Laurence Bergeen, | Title: Israel Horovitz: The Radical Play | 3/26/1970 | See Source »

...midget step in the Pentagon's forced march toward economy, Air Force Chief of Staff John Ryan wants his service to scotch its eleven-man bagpipe and drum contingent. The ostensible reason is to save $50,000 a year; some suggest that Mrs. Ryan cringes at the sight of American fighting men in the national costume of a foreign land. Anyway, the pipes that wailed a lament at Jack Kennedy's funeral, welcomed distinguished White House visitors, and enlivened countless county fairs throughout the U.S., are scheduled to sound their own dirge at a final Washington concert this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Piper's Price | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...first package offering: Brahms' German Requiem, Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 88 and 104, Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, all NBC Symphony broadcasts dating from the late 1930s or early 1940s. This year's batch will include Sibelius' Symphony No. 4, Mendelssohn's "Scotch" Symphony, dating from the same NBC period; and a Rossini-Verdi-Puccini LP emanating from the post-World War II reopening of La Scala on May 11, 1946 with the Maestro conducting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Underground Toscanini | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...deters a dedicated telephoneticist like Los Angeles Mathematician Angela Dunn, who has created words out of most of her friends' numbers. A pharmacist and his wife for whom she invented GRADLUP were so pleased that they now regularly serve a drink they have christened the Gradlup (vermouth and Scotch). San Francisco Producer-Director Alan Myerson, whose old Los Angeles phone was named GOLLYGO, always answered it by saying "gollygo" instead of "hello." Other Los Angeles phone names under which Myerson was once listed: HOLY PIG and ON A SONG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Dial 686-2377 for NUMBERS | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...from Lagos. The wedding dinner for 100 guests included two suckling pigs, three turkeys, 30 cold chickens, eight ducks, one side of roast beef, two goats on a spit, 30 chickens on a spit, various fresh salads, charlotte russe, three dozen bottles of vintage champagne, three cases of Scotch. Among the guests was Lieut. Colonel Phillip Effiong, the last leader of Biafra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: What Follows War | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

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