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...more down to earth than Eye. Put out by some recent college graduates in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who want to reach "all students, on all campuses, everywhere," it takes a leaf from Playboy: a nude centerfold that is somehow more appealing because the girl is not so slick and a rhyming comic strip about a bosomy heroine's scrapes with sex. The best article is by Edward Bastian, a graduate in political science from the University of Iowa, who spent a month in Viet Nam and captures the grime of the war. "You're always soaked, always miserable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Scene Smothering | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...large crowd turned out to see Wilson's final coaching appearance and his boys were psyched to the sky. Senior Jim Griswold made his first start and, symbolically, perhaps, got Harvard rolling with a slick...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Hoopsters Upset Blues In Final Home Contest | 3/4/1968 | See Source »

Laurence's bold advertising copy is a lie too-a slick attempt to sell merchandise by creating illusions of spurious wellbeing. As for her husband's building developments, they represent nothing but built-in, functional ugliness. As a man, she concludes, he is just another cipher, an interchangeable part ("Why him rather than anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Second Sex Revisited | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...movie audiences. Sex had to be put in rather than taken out. Director Mark Rydell has seen fit to heat his movie up with three gratuitous physical set-tos-girl and man in hunting cabin, girl and girl in bed, girl and herself in bathroom. The result is slick, sick psychological melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Fox & Sweet November | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...Yardlings will take on the slick Princeton freshman team Saturday at the IAB in what should prove to be one of the season's tightest battles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Swimmers Defeat Exeter for Fifth Win | 2/15/1968 | See Source »

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