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...Socialist Workers Party, which is the oldest Trotskyist organization in the United States; and one from Progressive Labor, which took over SDS a few years back and which used to be Maoist but has now decided that Mao is a tool of the bosses--bumped into each other, smack in the middle of Bay State Road where there were no cars to duck behind...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: What Did the Cat Do to the Bathtub Down the Hall? | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...former adman, he avoided any run-it-up-the-flagpole chatter. Still, he introduced some collector's items: "Zero-defect system," for perfection; "containment" for the withholding of information. Throughout the hearings, where precision would help, a file of worn metaphors and similes appears. Usually the phrases smack of the military or sports-two arenas notable for their threadbare lexicons. Porter thought of himself as "a team player," Dean as a soldier who had "earned my stripes." Ehrlichman considered himself proficient at "downfield blocking." J. Edgar Hoover was "a loyal trooper." Mitchell football-coached, "When the going gets tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Words from Watergate | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

Here is a movie that hymns the joys of a woman's subjugation to a man. As the standoffish wife of a rich rancher (George Hamilton), Catherine Crocker (Sarah Miles) runs away from home one day smack into a train robbery. The desperadoes, making off with the loot, take a fancy to Catherine's horse. Since Catherine refuses to dismount, she too is borne off into the wilderness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Square Dance | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

...they can give him, and he could get the same amount of that from another company." Record companies have always had to procure for their stars, says a music publicist. "It used to be broads for the top singers in the forties and fifties. Now it's coke, smack, grass or whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Payola Rock | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

...anti-tank posts of corroding concrete, up in a pillbox covered with netting and sod, halfway up the cliff, young Dr. Bleagh and his nurse Ivy are relaxing after a difficult lobotomy. His scrubbed and routinized fingers dart beneath her suspender straps, pull outward, release in a sudden great smack and ho-ho-ho from Bleagh as she jumps and laughs too, trying not too hard to squirm away. They lie on a bed of faded old nautical charts, maintenance manuals, burst sandbags and spilled sand, burned matchsticks, and unraveled corktips from cigarettes long decomposed that comforted through the nights...

Author: By Michael Levenson, | Title: Elsewhere Over the Rainbow | 6/1/1973 | See Source »

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