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That madness comes to a head when, after the tension and estrangement has reached its peak, after Claire has pursued a whole set of fantasies, the poles reverse and the couple come together in a sudden, two-day orgy. They tear the paper off the walls of their flat, scrawl and paint surrealistic shapes underneath, and finally slump back into exhaustion and defeat. Then they separate for good...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Long Journey Into Madness | 5/4/1973 | See Source »

...sell their originals with relative ease. David Levine, whose caricatures of political and cultural figures helped propel The New York Review of Books into its ascendancy, is probably the best known figure. New York Times theater cartoonist Al Hirschfield, who specializes in seeing how many times he can scrawl his daughter's name into the details of his illustrations-- he indicated the number beside his signature--is currently having a very popular New York show...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Masks of the Literal | 5/3/1973 | See Source »

...fuzzy continuity of a fever dream-rather like the early Marx Brothers movies, or the last films of W.C. Fields. It also had a fine eye for the human cartoon. Allen, playing the master criminal of his youthful fantasies, stands by while a bank teller tries to decipher his scrawl: "I have a gub." The holdup man insists that the word is "gun"; the teller consults higher authorities, thereby spiking the heist. Even Allen's penmanship, it turns out, is masochistic. Occasionally there was a flat, tasteless line, but audiences howled, and the film made money. Allen took...

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

...father of two, he was quietly divorced from his first wife, Barbara, last summer and has since married Susy Feldman, a pretty 29-year-old secretary. Through it all, Young has maintained a highly dedicated, no-nonsense attitude toward space flight. When a NASA geologist humorously suggested that he scrawl "Beat Army" in the lunar dust, Young replied: "I'll stomp out any words you want except 'Help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Apollo's Crew: A Study in Contrasts | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...current signal rate of Gum's pulsar. The sudden and brief appearance at that time of what seemed to be a new and brightly glowing star-probably as luminous as a quarter moon and visible even during full daylight-may have sufficiently moved a primitive sky-gazer to scrawl or carve his impressions on a cave wall. And if an archaeologist should ever find such a drawing, its age could be determined by using radioactive "clocks" and other dating methods on other objects at the site. Once that was done, scientists would know more precisely the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: When Gum Glowed | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

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