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...suddenly, repeatedly, find themselves jolted into clusters of ads that seemed almost deliberately designed to offend: the viewer's mind was forced to make the transit from Auschwitz to Bottoms Up pantyhose-one for those women who want the fanny rounded, the other for those who want it smooth. In one grotesque juxtaposition, the audience saw Dorf sitting with Eichmann and a couple of other SS officers in their dining room at Auschwitz. Eichmann sniffs the air and disgustedly remarks that the stench of the chimneys keeps him from enjoying his meal. We cut then to a Lysol commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Television and the Holocaust | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...Appointed Robert Strauss, the witty and smooth-talking Texan who has become the Administration's trade negotiator and chief troubleshooter, as the President's special counsellor on inflation. That presaged a step-up in efforts to jawbone against excessive wage-price boosts, with Strauss as the premier jawboner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Next Round Against Inflation | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...most psychologically troubled of the founding fathers." He finds in Hamilton two very different, constantly warring creatures. One is the paragon of eighth-grade history: logical, visionary, very nearly alabaster; the other, "the semimadman who sought from the world an ever-denied release from inner wounds ... The accomplished, smooth and brilliant man of the world could at any moment change hysterically, invisibly, for the time being decisively, into an imperiled, anguished child." In Flexner's formulation, Hamilton bore a lifelong grudge against his mother and cherished a romantic dream of aristocracy and vanished honor; it was the only thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cracked Alabaster | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...women in black quickly erased the Big Green's small lead, as they put together a smooth, powerful stretch of rowing after the settle...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Radcliffe Lights Cruise to Victory on the Charles | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

Birsh attributed the cancellation of the show to "strong personal differences, conflicts of personal views. Things had been going smooth all year until this sudden flare-up," he said...

Author: By Georgia A. Hill, | Title: Premiere Society Show Closes Because of Personal Conflicts | 4/21/1978 | See Source »

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