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...fever-and most disappointing, no entertainment. By the finale, the predictability of every turn and the grossness of the heroes and villains recall the old gag about the espionage agent who whispered a code message to a locked door. "Wrong apartment," came the reply. "I'm Ginsberg the tailor. You want Ginsberg the spy, upstairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Zombie | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

...into the rules, the text gets longer. What tends to come out is not something neat and streamlined but rather something resembling the Income Tax laws, which are wondrously complicated but do not represent a cogent system. The best way, and the most efficient, to gain the freedom to tailor academic programs, is to abolish concentrations completely...

Author: By Philip Stewart, | Title: Harvard Without Concentrations? | 1/6/1970 | See Source »

...part of it. As Evans puts it, Bailey was "the prototype of the dashing Cockney photographer"-and the prototype for the hero of Blow-Up. Other photographers, of course, collected a lot of money and a lot of girls. But few did it with Bailey's flair. A tailor's apprentice at 15, he was in his mid-20s when he bought his first two-tone Rolls-Royce (light blue on dark blue). At about the same time, he was traveling the world with his favorite model, Jean Shrimpton. Since then, there have been other cars, other trips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Style of the '60s | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...editorial matter, let us quote Brooklyn-born but much-traveled Guccione again: "What Americans think is kinky is right on target in Britain." This doesn't mean we'll run as much sadomasochistic stuff here as we do there. As we shake down, we'll tailor our U.S. edition more to American tastes. For Guccione, if nothing else, is a learner. Why, just the other day he didn't hesitate to ask a dining companion what eggs Benedict were. -Penthouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Penthouse v. Playboy | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

This stray win last week, though, is slightly bizarre. Not only is Harrington the first Democrat from that district since 1874, but one of the most unlikely as well. In GOP territory, he refused to run as a moderate or tailor his views to appeal to the center. True, he played on war weariness, but he also made clear his dislike for moderate thinking on a broad range of issues...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Brass TacksHarrington's Strange Majority | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

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