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In Maine, the jointly owned Portland Express and Press Herald swiveled around 180° from their previous support and called for impeachment. The small Central Maine Morning Sentinel in Waterville declared it was impossible to read the transcripts "without feeling like an embarrassed and unwitting voyeur."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: The Public: Disillusioned | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

Most of the film criticism that I have seen in the last decade serves two principle functions: to make for entertaining reading, and to present the critic's personal judgment on the film in question. (Some would argue another, more important function: to provide publicity, and thereby perpetuate the current...

Author: By Emanuel Goldman, | Title: A Parasitic Profession | 4/16/1974 | See Source »

The rebuttal makes much of Hanoi's hope that the U.S. will reduce aid to Saigon. Martin casts Shipler in the role of Hanoi's tool, witting or unwitting. He refused to see Shipler, he says, because he would not cooperate in a "campaign to grossly deceive the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Truce in Saigon | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

In short, none of Chaplin's intentional satire comes off. This is in part be cause of an understandable falling off in creative powers. But in larger measure, it is because he obviously wanted to ingratiate himself with and win back his audience, and was therefore careful not to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Deposed Monarch | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

Close brushes with financial catastrophe have become an unwitting specialty of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. In 1971 the aerospace giant faced bankruptcy because of cost overruns on the C-5A transports it was building for the Air Force; the Pentagon eventually let it escape with a $200 million loss. Almost immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Star-Crossed Lockheed | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

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