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...divorce rate among the young marrieds can be traced back to the cliché propaganda of the Friedan/Steinem ilk who perpetuate the cult of the beautiful, ever youthful, career-minded, glamorous, intellectual, competitive and glib nitwit who falls apart at the sight of an unmade bed or dirty toilet bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 17, 1969 | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...stating his case, he is not above resorting to the most blatant loaded language. One example is his use of a story about one British couple who were driven from their flat by their West Indian landlord "by verbal abuse and filth smeared in and around their toilet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Phenomenon of Powellism | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...they managed to miss few tea breaks, beer breaks or whisky breaks. Then there was the matter of pilferage. One electrician was charged with stealing a startling list of articles: 30 yards of carpeting, two chests of drawers, five curtains, 180 ft. of glass fiber, five lampshades and a toilet seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shipping: The Unlucky Queen | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...skipper, Commander Lloyd Bucher, who looked a decade older than his 41 years, they were bundled into three olive-drab U.S Army buses and driven to the United Nations Command's advance camp in the Korean demilitarized zone. They were fed and given field jackets and toilet kits. Eventually pronounced fit to travel to the U.S., they boarded two giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE RETURN OF THE PUEBLO'S CREW | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

Having failed at titillation, the movie tries an onslaught of vulgarity. As if he had personally discovered the phallic symbol, Director Christian Marquand presents a parade of hydrants, fingers, pointers and thermometers. Then-he backs Candy up against a urinal, down on a toilet seat and up above a blood-soaked operating amphitheater. Yet with all his excesses, Marquand is a figure of refinement compared with Scenarist Buck Henry (The Graduate), whose idea of humor is an aside to the heroine: "Why don't you put a meter on it and we'll all get rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dirty Old Men | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

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