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...registrar's office by wanting to turn in his grades before the final exam. He already knew, he said, exactly what each of his students was worth. When he did give an exam, it was demanding. Appalled by the constant cheating, he browbeat students to go to the toilet before the papers were passed out and pressed fresh pencils into the hands of examinees rather than let them go to the sharpener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prospero's Progress | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...ironic state of affairs, since People could easily be interpreted as a satire on the current vogue for explicit cinematic sexuality. Anyone who watched the two kids coupling on a balustrade or in a tree in Yellow will surely appreciate the absurd acrobatics of the scene in the train toilet. Writer-Director Henning Carlsen often dwells too long on a single joke or effect, and it might be argued that he shrewdly exploits permissiveness while satirizing it, but such reservations do nothing to diminish People's raucous vitality. After the sociological tedium of Yellow, and the adolescent eroticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sex with a Smile | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...squad spent its afternoons collecting spiders for a Finnish arachnologist, while other men spend hours creatively decorating their metal helmets with goose feathers, McCarthy buttons, toilet paper, obscene photographs, and extremely elaborate designs and slogans chipped in the green, white, and blue Hotshot helmet paint. Wearing the more elaborately decorated helmets became a status symbol and an expression of defiance of busy-work...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Why Not Let the Forests Burn? | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...molten substances to fabricate extra-strong materials and perfectly round ball bearings. The astronauts' 10,000-cu.-ft. living space will feature a wardroom for relaxation, a microwave oven, a "sponge shower" with a vacuum cleaner to get rid of wastes, and even a forced-air toilet. Both the second and third missions will keep crews in orbit for 56 days. In the third, an orbiting observatory will be sent aloft with 13 instruments for studying the sun -particularly the solar flares that are a hazard to space flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Is the Moon the Limit for the U.S.? | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...special kind of American masochism called nine European countries in 18 days. What could have been a Grand Hotel on wheels swiftly degenerates into a bus of fools, overpopulated with drooling Babbitts and hatchet-faced moms. Humor centers around the foreign John with its mysterious bidet and its waxy toilet paper. A sleazy double-entendre occasionally surfaces, as when the tour guide observes that the cockney word for sausages is (smirk) bangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bus of Fools | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

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