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There is one way and one way only by which the crisis can be resolved and the country pulled out of the Watergate swamp. I propose an extraordinary act of statesmanship and courage-an act at once noble and heartbreaking; at once serving the greater interests of the nation, the institution of the presidency, and the stated goals for which he [Nixon] so successfully campaigned. That act is Richard Nixon's own voluntary resignation as President of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Resignation: An Act of Statesmanship | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

...daughter of a famous actress divorcee (Ellen Burstyn) living in the heart of Georgetown society, is possessed mind and body by the devil. Her face grows bloated, crossed by pusfilled lesions; her eyes become cat's orbs that crawl back in her head; her skin swells and turns a swamp color; her hair gets sticky and snaky; her voice comes out the croak of a just-cured male mute; convulsions contort her body and it flips like a wounded crocodile's tail; she drools green gook when she is not squirting vomit (pea soup) into the faces of the psychiatrists...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Screaming Yellow Zombies | 1/25/1974 | See Source »

...both courses are. Much suspenseful, if highly stylized, drama results from the interaction of these characters with one another and with hell on earth. Devotees of the prison-and-escape genre will enjoy anew such tradition-blessed ploys as the smug-gled-weapon bit, sundry chases through jungle and swamp, the operation-with-out-anaesthesia scene, and of course the solitary-confinement sequence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Escape Vehicle | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...hoped that it could build enough nuclear power plants to drive Storm King's pumps, but EPA projected that because of "licensing and other problems," which have mired the nuclear projects in a swamp of delays, the drive would have to come from fossil fuel--increasingly expensive, and in short supply...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin, | Title: Storm Passes Over Mass Hall | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

...middle of a disgraceful orgy, binds him and drops him live into a freshly dug backwoods grave-a marvel of vengeful fantasy. Lawyers are the schoolyard bullies of modern society, against whom no ordinary child dares battle, and here is one of them with fear in his heart and swamp water in his ears, lying at the bottom of a mucky hole and spilling out his guilt to McGee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tasty No-Qual | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

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