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...mock, yet Tiny's total absorption in his role-what one friend calls "the purity of his madness" -cloaks him in an impervious aura of innocence. Blithely he goes on communing with his windup Victrola and 400 old recordings, and indulging such eccentricities as taking "a big shower" for 90 minutes each day, plus several "little showers after nature calls," and brushing his teeth six times a day (three times with toothpaste, three with papaya powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: The Purity of Madness | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...staff hotel was demonstrative of their whole attitude. The Antlers was seven blocks from headquarters and just a step away from becoming a bona fide flophouse. The cockroaches attested to that. Or the bathrooms that flooded with cold water whenever you tried to take a shower. The single, cardboard elevator was operated by Maggie, a rough, surly old woman. Single men were warned not to ride the elevator with her alone, especially if they were going all the way to the eighth floor. The Antlers had been chosen for one reason--it was cheap. The staff responded to the challenge...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Crusade Hits Indiana, Which Is Not The Promised Land | 5/15/1968 | See Source »

...improbable quest through Prague for morphine to ease his clandestine patient's pain, Dr. Braun seeks out his sister, who has been reduced to the level of working as a cleaning woman in a Nazi-run brothel. He first blunders into the girls' shower room-giving Brynych an excuse for a breathtaking study of the splash and spray of water on naked female forms. Later, the camera encounters a nightmare revel of swinish soldiers among whom the girls are herded like cattle before being returned to their stalls. In a corner, Braun comes upon the body, ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Fifth Horseman Is Fear | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...they shouldn't start building an ark in the backyard. Then came the era of fair-weather girls. Preoccupied with their own frontal systems, they postured before the weather maps in the latest gowns and spun out sultry spiels. NBCs Tedi Thurman used to peek from behind a shower curtain to coo: "The Temperature in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fair-Weather Friends | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...exploded for six runs in the first inning off Oakland pitcher Bob Rodriguez. Rodriguez retired to the mercy of the shower room while his teammates suffered through eight more innings and eight more runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Red Sox Top Oakland A's | 3/11/1968 | See Source »

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