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...source President Nixon's search for a successor to Exspiro Agnew. Since I knew he wouldn't choose his wife (at a time like this, the country can't stand Pat), what did it matter? In fact, nothing on page one so much as gave me a shiver...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 10/13/1973 | See Source »

Simpson, who had seen snow only twice before, agreed to shiver through four seasons for $350,000-the highest salary any rookie had received since the N.F.L. and A.F.L. merged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Simpson Settles In | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

...sometimes a good parody of sleazy courtship rituals, but more often irrelevant to what was being expressed. "Cambridge Dances", choreographed by Bill Evans, and "Journeys", by Martha Armstrong Gray, were more fluid than the other works, but too abstract. At times, in both of these dances, Gray would suddenly shiver and limp, but even this never gave more than ripples to an overly calm surface...

Author: By Sarah M. Wood, | Title: All Form and No Feeling | 8/7/1973 | See Source »

...ramshackle interior of Don Juan's shack?becomes perfectly real. In detail, it is as thoroughly articulated a world as, say, Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. In all the books, but especially in Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda makes the reader experience the pressure of mysterious winds and the shiver of leaves at twilight, the hunter's peculiar alertness to sound and smell, the rock-bottom scrubbiness of Indian life, the raw fragrance of tequila and the vile, fibrous taste of peyote, the dust in the car and the loft of a crow's flight. It is a superbly concrete setting, dense...

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

...million more a year in taxes and royalties for Middle Eastern crude. The increase will force price boosts on both heating oil and gasoline for American consumers. Because oil supplies are tight worldwide, the companies' alternative is not to turn to other sources, but to let some households shiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: The Winners and Losers from Devaluation | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

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