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George McGovern surveyed the wreckage of his presidential campaign from the poolside of the Virgin Islands retreat of one of his most generous financial backers, Henry Kimelman. The Senator's attitude toward the labor leaders and other traditional Democrats who had refused to help him was bitter. He declared that men like AFL-CIO President George Meany were party "wreckers" and that he would do "whatever I can to make sure that they don't come back into a dominant role in the Democratic Party." He also said that he was "not sure how you accommodate within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Look Back in Anger | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...might have been "real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys." Unfortunately on stage, the "real" fell rather flat. Effeminate Dale Harding (Roger Harkenrider) flips his hands a little too obviously: Billy Bibbitt (Lawrason Driscoll) undergoes a rather facile transformation from stuttering virgin to surly stud...

Author: By Celia B. Betsky, | Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 11/21/1972 | See Source »

Younger women notables include Naomi Savage and Judy Deter Savage's "St. Brigid Passion Week becomes a spiral of hide and seek with a black robed, virgin-like bust appearing in whole and in cut sections against greyish-white rectangular backgrounds that overlap and revolve around the center. She takes a negative and pasts up a college of this repeated image. For her, this black shape becomes an icon, indestructible, despite efforts to cut it up and change its positions...

Author: By Meredith A. Palmer, | Title: The Art of Baring Humanity | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...year. Claude returns to Paris, becomes an art dealer and falls out of love. Muriel suffers; time passes. Meanwhile, Anne grows beautiful, becomes an artist in Paris, falls in and out of passionate love with Claude, turns consumptive, dies. Claude writes a novel. Muriel, a thirty-year-old virgin schoolteacher, returns for one last evening with her first and only love who obligingly and summarily deflowers her. One could go on, one needn...

Author: By Michael Levenson, | Title: Bad and Bored | 11/15/1972 | See Source »

...Know About the Hereafter But Were Afraid to Ask? Not so. They are talking about an illustrated parable concerning a seagull who learns aerobatics. They are talking about a volume so small that Winnie the Pooh could carry it in his hip pocket, and so unfleshly that a vestal virgin might choose to read it at a church picnic. In short, about Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the year's?and perhaps even the decade's?pop publishing miracle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Bird! It's a Dream! It's Supergull! | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

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