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On Thursday, Cox wrote to Wright, detailing eleven objections to the procedure. He wanted clearer standards spelled out as the basis for omitting any "slippery" national security matters. He urged that any agreement must include presidential papers as well as the tapes, and cover other, Watergate-related crimes in addition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Richard Nixon Stumbles to the Brink | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

That settles Rousseau's hash. Goldfein is no kinder to Freud. The great alienist, he imagines, met his rival Jung one day while strolling in Vienna. Freud felt faint, swooned, and sat down in the dust. Jung, much concerned, offered analysis: "We clear the air, eh, Sigmund? Ah yes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vot Ve Got Here? | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

Isn't it rather ironic, then, that Riggs is so unmale? Since when has hustling or super-mooching or picking fights with women been something men are proud of? Not since Riggs. The word 'hustler', after all, originally meant 'prostitute' -- it was a woman's wheedling way of getting what...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: The Sugar Daddy Won't Last All Day | 9/25/1973 | See Source »

Tom Wolfe's dandy magazine piece about the Southern stock-car circuit, The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes! Yet the movie seems to be derived less from factual material than from other old racing melodramas, where owners are crooked and slippery, drivers cool and competent, and races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAST AMERICAN HERO is based On: Quick Cuts | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

This traffic in ambiguity has been built into the art world as a whole style of relating, a style of casting doubt. This style is a slippery thing--you can't attack something that uses ambiguity as its Catch-22. The rejected artist was playing a practical joke; the successful...

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

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