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Both men rose from humble origins and neither has shied away from the use of force in carrying out his own political and philosophical beliefs. But their lives are aimed in opposite directions. Le Duc Tho, a life-long revolutionary who fought the French and has spent ten years in...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: Absurd, Humorous, Imaginative, Offensive | 10/20/1973 | See Source »

If Actress Arthur is not exactly garden-variety glamorous, Maude is even less likely as the heroine of a TV situation comedy. In a medium that until a few years ago shied from portraying divorced women and left politics to the 6 o'clock news, Maude is on her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Big Bea | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

The public, you see, was acting like its gullibility was being tested. People were like wary hustlers laying their ignorance on the line to be bullied. They had come looking for art. But they shied from admitting that art was what they found. Here is what would happen: you enter...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Lost in the Whitney Funhouse | 7/27/1973 | See Source »

Impeachment is the most talked-about and shied-away-from of the possibilities arising out of the Watergate crisis. A month ago, when California's Democratic Congressman John Moss suggested a House inquiry into the matter, he was told by party leaders that the move was "premature." The Library...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Impeachment | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

All four prisoners were in their early 20s−tough, streetsmart, prison-wise. They compared jails the way Yalies compare prep schools. They shied away from pointing to specific causes for the fight. "All the tensions just came out," said Earl Moore, Pontiac head of the Disciples. Gang rivalries had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Gang's All Here | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

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