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...Middle East's chronically unsuccessful suitor, Libyan Strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, seems to need the services of a professional matchmaker. All his past efforts to join Libya with other Arab countries have failed. Now Libya's betrothal to Tunisia, which Gaddafi and Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba happily announced in mid-January, has apparently been broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: Broken Engagement | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...said that if she ever had to give up flirting, she would "give up altogether." Now it seems that her championship of sometime Photographer Ron Protas, 31, as executive director of the Martha Graham Dance Company has caused several old friends to give her up. Sounding like a rejected suitor, Graham Company Veteran Bertram Ross explained his recent resignation: "Life has always been difficult with Martha. Now, Protas is encouraging her to fantasize she's a young girl and two men are fighting over her favors." Exiting too were another long-time Graham dancer, Mary Hinkson and five "unsympathetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 7, 1974 | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...short, Moscow's role has become that of a spurned suitor who continues courting in order to save face. "How can the U.S. say it is defending the Middle East against Communism when we told the Russians to get out in 1972?" asks a high-ranking Egyptian official. The main thrust of Egyptian policy is toward improving relations with the U.S.-in return for American pressure on Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Sadat's Plan: Nationalist and Sober | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

...kind of wistful gamine, and that made her interpretation equally engaging in a different way. The current Gigi, Karin Wolfe, is a Barbie doll who has been programmed to sing, dance and fall in love with a chilling absence of presence Daniel Massey is also miscast as her suitor Gaston, a rich Parisian play-boy-about-town who discovers that little girl he used to pat on the head has grown into a young woman with a fierce hold on his heart. Massey displays about as much heart as the hero of a Restoration comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: For the Geritol Set | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

...issue of American Review (No. 17), Philip Roth contributed a compassionate sketch of Kafka that - yes - metamorphosed into an autobiographical fantasy. Roth imagined that Kafka did not die of tuberculosis in 1924 at 41, but emigrated to New Jersey where he became Roth's Hebrew-school teacher and suitor of his maiden aunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Post Office | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

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