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...difference between his research and ours can be seen by looking at a transistor radio. He was looking at how the transistor work. We're looking at how they're strung together," Hubel said...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, | Title: Med School Professors Cited for Eye Research | 9/28/1971 | See Source »

...limp-wristed parody of his fashion-photographer role in Blow Up, furnishes the film's few diverting moments. Most of the cast, including Law, are automatons whose flagrant absence of talent does full justice to their material. Miss Cannon, usually a decent actress, here seems rather strung-out, and Ryan, even when he is not supposed to be in the throes of thrombosis, persists in looking sorely but understandable pained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Valley of the Dregs | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

...grounds, the only site it could spare was a corner of the parking lot; apparently the trustees feared it would chew up their lawns. The installation bills included a whopping $3,500 from the city engineer for checking the structural strength of cables and welds, in case the strung, teetering monster proved a menace to public safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Truth Amid Steel Elephants | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

...Sized Rats. With every reason to feel just great, why did she look so puffy and strung out? "I'm flabbergasted by the reviews," she told TIME'S Brad Darrach. "After eleven years, I can't believe it. But you know, doing that part -it changed my life." Her voice broke. "It made me realize. So much. That poor girl I played in the picture had been so used. Always attracted to the same kind of man, and each man destroyed her. She was like a little puppy dog. No matter how much you beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Ordeal of Ann-Margret | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

Jewish Batman. If anything, the book is too rich in such details, almost bursting its seams with worked-up mots and comic turns. But it is strung together in the end by the quasi-poetic image of Jake's mysterious cousin Joey, the horseman of the title. Joey is a movie stuntman, baseball player and soldier of fortune whose vaguely charted wanderings seem to take in all the barricades, from Madrid in 1938 to Jerusalem in 1967. Jake, convinced that Joey is now in Paraguay pursuing the infamous Dr. Mengele of Auschwitz, also sees him as a kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dr. Johnson, Yes. Dr. Leary, No | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

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