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...want them [the press] to know that since the 21st [of March] I've been working my tail off, which I have?I?I'm so sick of this thing. I want to get it done with and over, and I don't want to hear about it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: The Most Critical Nixon Conversations | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...Before the three astrophysicists try catching a black hole by the tail to orbit around the earth [April 1], they had better try using the black holes they seem to have in their heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1974 | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...quite rightly disliked the Munchkin production number and preferred Judy Garland in front of a simple backdrop singing "Over the Rainbow" and Bert Lahr chewing on his tail. The Crimson review in 1939 also went for Gone With the Wind (which has recently had a big revival) and for The Roaring Twenties (which still comes around now and again), "a saga of liquor and love that rolls through that fabulous decade into the gloom of the thirties." And the review highly recommends Bachelor Mother, in which Ginger Rogers, David Niven, and a jitterbug contest "all add up to delightful fare...

Author: By Candace Brook, | Title: Streaking Into the Past | 3/19/1974 | See Source »

...public school because of the busing but in his yard was a large sky-blue bus he drove for Sunday School painted with "Have you read your Bible today?" and a big open Bible that was ready to fly away into the bus's side with the tail of its bookmark flapping behind...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Some Houses Down There | 2/27/1974 | See Source »

...gift are some of the most striking South Indian bronzes and stone carvings of the 8th to 11th centuries left in private hands, such as a 10th-llth century figure of Krishna dancing on the hood of the cobra-demon Kaliya, holding up the creature's tail in a ripple of bronze like a Malay kris, and the majestic, decapitated Female Torso from llth century Cambodia, an image as silent and epigrammatic as any archaic Greek kouros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gift to the West | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

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