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...middle of the forehead." To Actress Shirley MacLaine she is "all turned in and vulnerable, a child with a highly energetic brain. From the neck up, she's 80." To Actor Roddy McDowall, "trying to describe Mia is like trying to describe dust in a shaft of sunlight. There are all those particles." Her conversation is clotted with such words as amulets, transcendentalism, Utopia?and then, unexpectedly but inevitably, a choice selection of four-letter expletives. Only when Mia uses them, her friends feel, somehow she makes them sound like an incantation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Moonchild and the Fifth Beatle | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...left earth orbit and headed toward the moon, the astronauts pointed Apollo back toward earth and aimed a 16-mm. Maurer movie camera at the third-stage S-4B rocket, which had just been separated from the spacecraft. The resulting pictures show the receding rocket gleaming in the sunlight against a black sky as the blue, cloud-mottled earth hovers below. (Minutes earlier, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory scientists atop a mountain in the Hawaiian Islands had used a Baker-Nunn telescopic camera to shoot a spectacular picture of the S-4B, about 120 miles high, blasting Apollo out of earth orbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Triumphant Return from the Void | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...moat, and it could pass for a medieval fortress. Yet it is not forbidding. The new home of Houston's 21-year-old Alley Theater is a child's idea of a castle-a genuine playhouse. The sandblasted concrete with its nine turreted towers glows like imprisoned sunlight; glass has succumbed to stone. And behind the facade, inner grace balances outer strength. The stairways are cascades of red-orange carpeting; the low ceilings are dimpled with lights embedded in them like flat moons, and the throwaway nooks and crannies have no function except to delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: The Playhouse Is the Thing | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...Parks Department has approved the plan in principle. When installed, the monument will allow visitors to stroll among the piers; the central pier will be open on one side and serve as a small chapel with writing incised upon the walls. The lightsome, airy cubes are designed to reflect sunlight, people, trees and even boats passing by in New York harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monuments: Expressing the Unspeakable | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...early morning sunlight, Viet Cong agitators harangued crowds routed out onto street corners at gunpoint. They had free run for only a few hours. Two battalions of South Vietnamese troops were hastily airlifted from Saigon. Street by street, they drove the enemy out of town and back into the surrounding paddies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: A Time of Uncertainty | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

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