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...Masters spout the kind of gems of wisdom Jodorowsky loves so well: "You shoot to find yourself. I do it in order to disappear." Or, "The heart, the head--exchange them. It's time." It all gets a little wearing after an hour...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: For A Few Icons More | 12/1/1971 | See Source »

...conference" off with a zero. But Kramer has had such a great influence on mass audiences in his heyday, and his films for so long epitomized Hollywood's "serous" award-winners, that it seemed a cop-out to let him off the hook, to go back to Cambrige and spout some brief sobering statements about old-time-movie decrepitude. I engaged Mr. Kramer myself, and asked him whether his films had political intentions, and whether he conceived his films in political terms. And Kramer replied...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Guess Who's Coming to Brandeis? | 11/12/1971 | See Source »

Anyone who goes to Australia thinking he speaks the Queen's English is in for a shock called "Strine," meaning Australian-the cockney-like vernacular that most Aussies spout. Through the mysterious medium of Strine, magic comes out mare chick, a terrace house is a terror souse, house-proud is assprad, and sacks of potatoes are sex apertaters. Such metamorphoses particularly baffle Australia's many visiting Asian students, who arrive Down Under speaking textbook Hong Kong or Pakistani English, only to confront linguistic anarchy on their very first gloria sty (glorious day) in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Strain of Strine | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

Descent from Olympus. Pluche does not spout off entirely in a vacuum. Like a god descending from Olympus to reassure himself of his immortality, he ventures from his studio on the Rue Boissonnade to loaf among the plebs until inspiration returns. But no sooner is he in "the circle of the frivolous damned" than the world's petty annoyances close in. Brother Georges, a witless executive living far beyond his means and on the verge of ruin, asks for and gets the balance in Pluche's bank account. Brother-in-Law Mesnard, an immensely successful painter who sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ecstasy Without Agony | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

...complain anytime it thought its precious, god-al-mighty interests were being endangered. We need more schools like Ohio State. whose athletes and athletic program are a credit to the American collegiate tradition. What we don't need is young men like you. who use a newspaper to spout off radical beliefs and distort the facts...

Author: By Joe L. Mcdonough cambridge, | Title: Letter on NCAA | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

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