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Most restaurateurs suffer silently under a gourmand's assault, but they all frown on one particular variant, the Takeout Artist. At the Stockholm, for example, Manager White caught one soberly dressed couple making off with 4 lbs. of shrimp in a concealed plastic bag after they had finished dining. When White intercepted them, both complained angrily-and the woman dumped the smuggled shrimp on the floor at his feet. A pair of California counterculturists astounded the manager of Shakey's Pizza Parlor with the huge amounts of food they were putting away-until he found an excuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Importance Of Being Greedy | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

Money Needed. Moreover, the BEA options to buy six more planes are less than they seem. Marking noted that his airline would exercise its option only for a "variant" of the present version, very possibly a longer-range plane with a more powerful Rolls-Royce engine. If Lockheed can produce the new model, the British government has promised to provide 75% of the $76 million that Rolls-Royce would need to develop the engines. But Lockheed will have to put up an estimated $80 million to $100 million to develop the modified plane, and it does not now have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: A Needed Lift for Lockheed | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

...standard frontier alien, but Catherine is a refreshing variant of the headstrong heroine. She is a potentially capable woman to whom nothing has happened, so she has nothing to bring to a sudden flood of experience except some mulish preconceptions. Durham leads her through the standard scenes: the learn-your-place tethering by Jay, the strip-or-go-filthy decision, the threat of lascivious Indians. Catherine handles them all incongruously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Women's Lib Western | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...goals of scholarship should also include a search for value: a search for "the good" in classical terms. Claims that the Afro-American experience is unique, must be tested against Ellison's reminder that the black experience is a variant of the human experience. It comprises the reaction of men and women to unforgettable racism, to terror, urbanization, the bomb, and to Americanization...

Author: By A. C. Epps, | Title: The Role of Afro-American Scholarship | 3/21/1972 | See Source »

When it opened several months ago, Connection was a surprise success; its backers didn't foresee the potential market for an American police film made without an "angle"--without the heroic tough-guy romanticization of the early detective stereotype, without the Jack Webb variant ("it's a dull, tough job but I wouldn't have it any other way, and only the facts please, Ma'am,") and without the exploitation-potential of a hero-villain with an especially pathological personality. Working in the realm of the possible (if not quite the typical) Friedkin has disciplined his actors to imitate real...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: French Connection | 1/13/1972 | See Source »

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