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...Boyars", the staggering onset of his fits and above all the comic verbal dance from mockery to self-deception, stomping in the process on as many toes as possible. Under F.M. Kimball's direction, comic tension links the opposing profiles of actors or inhabits Edgar's sickly stare over the audience's heads At the beginning of each short sequence--signalled by a bell, and announced by the actors as, say, "Round Number 4: Alice Philosophizes"--the actors take carefully set poses before pitching into their fray...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Play It Again, Friedrich | 12/7/1972 | See Source »

...exhibitors occupied booths to display vitamins, natural foods and cosmetics, home food grinders, even vibrating "massage chairs." Visitors who wandered among the displays could pick up free vitamin-pill samples, munch organic foods or drink Swedish mineral water. They could test their strength on some antique carnival machines or stare at the leotard-clad figure of Lizalotta Valesca, 70. In 1930 she was Miss Finland; today she is perhaps the world's best-preserved great-grandmother and a persuasive saleswoman for a line of health and beauty aids. Visitors could also slip into an adjoining auditorium and hear lectures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health and Hucksterism | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...because it happened to be manned, or rather womanned, by a pro-McGovern union. Finally, she was introduced to Miss Maidenform herself, an ample 36-C, who was wearing a pair of McGovern-Shriver buttons where they would get the most exposure. Eleanor, hardly five feet tall, managed to stare up at the girl's eyes rather than the Maidenform-McGovern propaganda before her. Said she: "This has been a very uplifting experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Those Other Campaigners, Pat and Eleanor | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

APRIL 7. New York City. Got a limosine for $11 an hour (Nixon was in one today). I always carried my gun outside my hotel. I really felt good being stare at by the poor people. Took a taxi to the Waldorf Astoria and never got looked at by anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: One Sick Assassin | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...uncommon blue-Italian blue, insist the proud Münchner-canopies the 890-acre expanse of wood, trail, meadow and stream known as the Englischer Garten. From their benches, the forgotten aged stare across the little lake into the sun or watch in silence the absurd parade of ducks and drakes or the wheeling Frisbees in the sky. Lazing in a field are clusters of young longhairs, some of them students, some wanderers from other nations. They all speak the same language: guitar and hash. Elector Karl Theodor designed this park in 1789. It was not Karl Theodor who inscribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics '72: Munich: Where the Good Times Are | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

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