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Gielgud with straw hat and cigar plays Sissal as a lickerish hybrid of Winston Churchill and Malcolm Muggeridge. Cackling over the edge of a tub in which the Emperor is playing a nude scene, he tells Napoleon: "Talleyrand once told me you had four women in one night." This indeed is the stuff of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Historical Stuffing | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...kind of art he likes: he hopes it will preserve vital distinctions in human consciousness. If it is a claim less grandiose than that of Kael or Simon, he applies it to more different kinds of subject matter. Second, he has what it takes to know when to tub-thump hard, and when to leave well enough alone. It's called "Balance". Third, he's a better writer than even the smoothest of the slick mags' stable. His style is extremely personal: mostly wryly clever, but sometimes almost lyrical. And it moves as cleanly as a well-oiled trip-lock...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Saints and Sycophants | 1/18/1972 | See Source »

...kept asking myself, 'If it's so great, why doesn't it feel any better?'" She sought the answer at Esalen, the California group-therapy center shown in B. & C. & T. & A., where, after some hesitation, she joined a nude session in a tub. After that she tried primal therapy, a far-out treatment that induces the patient to reenact his infancy, including kicking and screaming. She still attends weekly group-therapy sessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Skin Touch | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...September the review team was told that the administrative structure of your institution was of unusual complexity, and that it was administered on the concept of departmental autonomy, especially in areas related to the compliance review. The statement that (at Harvard) "every tub sits on its own bottom" (referring to departments) has been substantiated by our experience in acquiring and assembling data during the review...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter to Pusey: Harvard Didn't Pass | 10/6/1971 | See Source »

...dormitory must do more than balance chunks of stone. People live in Mather House. The thoughtfulness of the architect in providing ample wall outlets and tub-showers does not outweigh his most serious error, the absence of living rooms in almost every student tower "suite." People need a sense of turf, a feeling that some familiar piece of space is always waiting to have emotions projected onto it. "If I'm unhappy and just want to get out of my room for a minute," said a senior occupying a tower single, "I leave my room and go look...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slouching Toward Alphaville | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

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