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...Margret, the Swedish meatball, the female Troy Donahue, the 30-year-old high school cheerleader from Wilmette, Ill., was actually acting. But in Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge (TIME, July 5), playing the billowy milkbed the hero frolics on, she opposed Jack Nicholson's grim portrait of a swordless swordsman with a rich and touching study of what happens to a woman when her man won't let her be one. Her work deserved and got the sort of reviews that could win a girl an Oscar, and her body got a degree and quality of exposure that...

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

...wordless book, a swordless sheath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Senate Week | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...formerly of Boston and now transferred to Chicago, concluded the speech by which he concluded the Methodist World Conference† as follows: "Now we go forward to bear our testimony against all offensive war and to proclaim that the Hebrew prophets were not misguided fanatics when they foretold the swordless and spearless day of God. God has given us here the vision of a warless world. Lord, we go; and as we go, we preach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Springfield | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

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