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...woman with five breasts Very Décolleté. As for interpretations of his paintings, he leaves that to others. "I refuse to try to explain everything, because if you know too much about yourself, you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beauty in the Bizarre | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

...those criteria, he judged tick . . . tick . . . tick, a movie about a black man who gets elected sheriff of a Southern town, superior to Putney Swope, a raucous but innovative film about a black man who takes over a white ad agency. "I know that is heresy," he wrote. "I know Putney Swope is the currently fashionable put-down of the Establishment. I know . . . but just the same, you should have been there in the Roosevelt Theater Saturday night. There wasn't an empty seat. The audience accepted tick . . . tick . . . tick with joy, laughter and applause. And the laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Populist at the Movies | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

exist the tick of Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 9, 1970 | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...relationship between the plot of this clumsily simple-minded melodrama called . . . tick . . . tick . . . tick . . . and the slick simple-mindedness of In the Heat of the Night is a lot more than coincidental. Director Ralph Nelson (TIME, Feb. 2) is obviously a man whose political conscience is easily stirred, probably by reading the box-office receipts in Variety. Everything about his film is tacky, derivative, finally exploitative-except for a funny and wise performance by Fredric March. As crafty Mayor Jeff Parks, March transforms a dime-store piece like . . . tick . . . tick . . . tick . . . into a one-jewel movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: One-Jewel Movement | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

Listen to the Tick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1970 | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

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