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SUNDAY, The Class Menagerie, terrible Katharine Hepburn TV debut, in a play with some unforgiveable lines. Watch for the glass unicorn to get his horn broken off. Channel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 1/17/1974 | See Source »

Alice Cooper is Vincent Furnier actually a fairly square preacher's son who delights in home cooking and wearing Levi's, but onstage as Alice he is the king, queen, unicorn and Godzilla of schlock rock. His show is a grotesquerie of sick sex, gory violence and ear-splitting cacophony. Last week at the San Diego Sports Arena and the week before at the Los Angeles Forum the scene was the same. The lights dimmed and the crowd (size: 12,000 to 22,000; age: 15 to 25) was allowed to roar for a full five minutes before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Schlock Rock's Godzilla | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...legend and history, the com passion and private sentiment, including a parting volley for the victims of the Warsaw ghetto. It does not quite work. Somewhere, not too long after the first chapter, Andre Schwarz-Bart for got that a fable must be a unicorn, not a zebra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of Africa | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...documents. When the agreement is broadcast, Communist troops will execute a two-part plan. Some units will make a concerted military assault on the city's police and militia posts. At the same time, other troops will "hang peace flags and lanterns, fly flower-decked balloons and hold unicorn dances [traditional Vietnamese dance at a time of joy], entertainment shows and peace-float processions to create an enthusiastic atmosphere and rally a large number of people. In the event the enemy represses the demonstrators," the directive adds, "we will carry the corpses of the demonstrators to city hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The Postwar War | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...period of early success," a third category of "blindness and reassessment," and a "later manner." He announces and then proves beyond doubt that he has discerned three levels of language in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Confronted by Holmes, the reader's mind wanders to The Unicorn in the Garden, to The Night the Ghost Got In. He imagines that he is writing Walter Mitty: ta-pocketa, ta-pocketa, go the typewriter keys. He remembers Thurber's unsettling word games-mice in chimes, lips in pistol-and plays a game of his own that he has played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three Levels of Mitty | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

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