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...little creek," he mutters. "Trickling water. I'm actually there." Later, you and Herb are actually in a karate class taught by a black belt instructor. Wisely, as you hear your calcium deposits breaking down again, Herb suggests dropping out before you both qualify for the black truss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: In Search of the New You | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...Next morning two men (Tony Beckley and Norman Rodway) arrive, ostensibly to check the gas meter. A moment later, one of them brandishes a switchblade knife and suddenly gives the tryst a dreadful twist. Introducing themselves as Tom and Dick-Harry, they giggle, is waiting downstairs-the men truss Morgan with ribbons, and force Kendall to down tumblers of Johnnie Walker and puff on a marijuana joint. Then, mind-blown and stoned, she is twice raped, while her lover writhes helplessly at knifepoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tryst with a Twist | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...meanwhile seducing a wealthy old woman's beautiful companion (Camilla Sparv), who really loves him for reasons never made clear in the script. He is characterized throughout as an alley cat so charmless that one sullied female can recall nothing about him more memorable than: "He wears a truss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Bank Bit | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...standing over a young man, striking him on the head with an ax. Said Smith: "I have seen butchers show as much emotion as he did when they were cutting up a sheep's ribs." Frightened, Smith helped Brady and Myra Hindley wipe away the blood and truss up the body before going home to his wife. On crossexamination, defense attorneys got Smith to admit that he had accepted money from London's News of the World for his story of the crimes and the trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Most Unusual Trial | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...larger as they spread outward from the great court. "We've thought of the design as being created by a drop of water," says the architect. "The ripples are more intense in the center and broaden as the waves move out." From lawn chairs to the 500-ft. truss that is the lintel of the laboratory building, the campus explodes in scale. Even the bricks on the walls and scattered decorative stone bases double in size to harmonize with larger facades. "It's an old Renaissance trick," explains Netsch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: By the Cloverleaf | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

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