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...road back to Moscow that the KGB men spotted the field of lilacs and filled the trunk of one of the autos with them. When they came to a town, one of the officers suggested to Giselle that she buy some food for her husband. "He'll need it where he's going," said the KGB man solicitously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Repression with Flowers | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

...reality is grimmer. On hot summer days, the smog level in the San Bernardino forest can reach .5 ppm. The average is .20 to .25 - enough to reduce photosynthesis by 66% . In turn, this impedes the flow of protective pitch with in the tree, allowing pests to attack its trunk with near impunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: City v. Forest | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...whole system of justice is steadily drifting toward pursuing the innocent law-abiding citizen simply because he is a docile cooperative quarry. Now I am told that if someone incompetent parks in my trunk or brings my grillwork crashing around my skull, my insurance company should cover it [March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 23, 1970 | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...boorishness of the second clown, which had always grated on the audience, here expresses the tension and guilt operating on the hero at the moment that the collision occurs. He accuses and reviles our bourgeois hero, generating a crowd and a cop, who tries to open the car trunk in which the hero has hidden a corpse. While this threat of exposure is specific, the situation is more significant as a direct metaphor for the hero's emotional state. People surround him pointing and shouting; the possibility of escape decreases with every second. In an earlier Chabrol the metaphor would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer La Femme Infidele | 3/12/1970 | See Source »

...figures chiseled out of Etruscan boulders include a 19-ft.-high elephant crushing a warrior in its trunk, a giant dismembering a man, a goddess with each pubic hair clearly delineated, and a 20-ft. satanic head whose mouth opens into a large chamber. These overwhelming creations are 50 miles north of Rome. It is known only that they were carved between 1555 and 1585 at the command of Duke Pier Francesco Orsini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Live the Duke | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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