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...tension or incest or lesbianism-Meyer light-heartedly plays them for sheer sexy fun. Vixen and her brother don't talk about social taboos or family relations. They don't talk about anything. They just grin a lot and yell as they move into the movie's memorable shower stall-chase scene...

Author: By Jim Fallows, | Title: Animals The Vixen | 10/28/1969 | See Source »

...arrive spent the first day wandering through the suite, pulling out his hair, and moaning ominously. "Oh is there gonna be shit. Oh God, is there gonna be shit." But Shit never arrived, so there are only six of us living in two bedrooms and a minimally converted shower stall until Mather finally opens sometime, we are now told, in January...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: The Vagabond I Am In Mather House Nobody Loves Me | 10/14/1969 | See Source »

...amused at your discussion of pickpockets [June 20]. As an ex-member of a whiz mob (pickpocket group), it is evident to me that the kind of people Detective Inspector Candlish has had his experience with are pretty crude operators. Nor is his information entirely correct. A stall is not a "runner"-whatever that is supposed to be-a stall is an extremely skilled kinetic psychologist who knows exactly how to walk alongside or in front of the "mark" (victim) so that he is forced to slow down or turn aside, right into the wire. This is called "framing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 4, 1969 | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...suggest that Nixon was proceeding with the ABM partly to have it as a handy bar gaining point. Rogers at first denied that it would ever be used in that manner, which seemed logical enough if its proposed deployment was not deemed threatening enough by the Russians to stall the arms talks in the first place. When Committee Chairman William Fulbright raised the question a second time, Rogers admitted that the ABM might, after all, prove "useful" in bargaining. Fulbright was not about to let the self-contradiction pass unnoticed. "I should not have brought up the question," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE NEGOTIATOR AND THE CONFRONTER | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

With 4:38 remaining, Gallagher tied the game for the fourth time on two free throws. Again, the Crimson could not get the go-ahead hoop, and after Peters scored for the Elis, Yale began to stall effectively. Harvard was forced to make mistakes and commit fouls, and the Big Blue netted eight consecutive points to assure victory...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Elis Outdistance Hoopsters, 76-70 | 2/8/1969 | See Source »

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