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...picks. They live in what is almost a psychotic New York milieu of impending violence and the rape of privacy. There are three locks and a burglar alarm on the front door. There is also "The Breather," a telephonic intruder, who calls at odd, menacing hours to breathe and snort. At comic and not-so-comic war with itself, the family listens to sporadic rifle fire in the streets that betokens a city at war with itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revivals: Satirical Sniper Fire | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

EXERCISE: Put your right hoof in your right cuff, bend your elbow behind your ear, take a snort and sneeze. The consequent sensation will parallel the pretzel-like contortion which most of us have sustained all year...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: 1968 Descends Upon My Head | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

EXERCISE: Put your right hoof in your right cuff, bend your elbow behind your ear, takes a snort and sneeze. The consequent sensation will parallel the pretzel-like contortion which most of us have sustained all year...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: 1968 Descends Upon My Head | 6/12/1968 | See Source »

...continual panty raid. Her undies scan better than the dialogue, which unravels along such lines as, She: "You only want me for one thing." He: "Yes, but what a lovely thing." If the polish is in Ferris' frame, the spit is in her delivery. She has a snort like a tugboat, she can carve an inflection into a tombstone, and she blows bubbles of mirth that might have lured Ulysses off his course. She keeps theatergoers from remembering that the play's the nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Consolation Prizes | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

Despite spotty corporate earnings reports and new talk about a tax increase, the unmistakable snort of the bull reverberated last week in the stock market. For the second week in a row, prices surged ahead and trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange climbed to a new record, 58,194,770 shares, an avalanche that strained the facilities of banks and brokerage houses. The Big Board's year-old composite index of all common-stock issues on three straight days eclipsed its May 8 peak of $51.93, reaching $52.18 at week's end. Reflecting a suddenly renewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Rallying Round the Blue Chips | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

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