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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clothing. They include a Mexican gardener (Ringo Starr), a poet (Richard Burton), a guru (Marlon Brando), a Minuteman general (Walter Matthau), a surgeon (James Coburn), and Candy's uncle and father-both played by John Astin. The attacks take place on a pool table and in a moving truck, a paratroop plane, a grand piano, a men's room, a police car, an Oriental temple, a Mercedes-Benz and a hospital room. In all cases, sex is represented by a lot of thrashing around under things like sheets, feathers, snow and water. When Candy does appear unclothed...

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

...remarkably discreet occupation Except for an occasional jeep or transport truck, hardly a single piece of Soviet military equipment is now visible in Czechoslovakia. The Kremlin has taken extraordinary measures to keep its troops out of sight. On pain of facing desertion charges, Soviet enlisted men and noncommissioned officers have been forbidden to leave their rigidly secured garrisons. Even the few officers who wangle twelve-hour passes into town have strict orders to avoid contact with civilians, and they often gaze longingly into the display windows of sweetshops without ever working up the courage to go inside and buy something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THEY MIGHT AS WELL BE GHOSTS | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

Thus for all the Israelis' contempt for the raiders, there is evidence that they are worried. Recently, Israel closed the Allenby Bridge over the Jordan River to truck traffic, reversing its own policy of keeping connections between Jordan and the West Bank open. Now trucks coming from Jordan must unload on one side, and the goods are reloaded into Israeli vehicles on the other side, all under the watchful eyes of po- lice. Police barricades have been set up outside Jerusalem and more green-be-reted civil guards called up to reserve duty. At Israeli schools, teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Israeli Assessment | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...placed his new figures in real environments. He grouped diners'around a real table, put a truck driver behind a real steering wheel. For his Subway, he discovered that the Transit Authority was about to scrap a car, and trucked it to his old chicken barn, which he now uses as a studio. Dismembered, refurbished, equipped with programmed flashing lights and one lone girl passenger rapt in some dream of her own, Subway now transforms one wall of the Janis gallery into a vivid simulation of the flickering trauma of underground travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Presences in Plaster | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...Here we are," says the cabby, stopping at No. 429 Broome Street, an unlighted storefront in lower Manhattan with a FOR LET sign taped to one black-painted window. By day, Broome Street is a bustling, truck-clogged thoroughfare; at 9 p.m. it is all but deserted. Doubtfully, the passenger pays the cabby and walks over to try the door of the store. It is locked. He is about to return to the taxi when he notices a small bell push, hidden in the shadows. He presses; a buzzer signals that the door is unlocked. He steps inside a tiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainment: Mattress for the Mind | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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