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...young officer, he would not let his seasickness prevent him from standing watch: he simply carried along his vomit bucket to the bridge of the submarine. He fell under the spell of Admiral (then Captain) Hyman Rickover, and that celebrated authoritarian became the second most important male influence in his life. It was Rickover who provided the model of the perfectionist leader, one who seldom handed out compliments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the Year: I'm Jimmy Carter, and... | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...king of kings for our country. Ask the head hidden under the crown. That divine head is nothing but a cannibal's head. The cannibal with a machine gun, the cannibal with a whip, the cannibal with an iron mesh heating your bottom and spine until you vomit your brains out--yes, this cannibal is here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feeding the Cannibal: Excerpts From a Speech by Baraheni | 5/25/1976 | See Source »

...Annapolis, the only thing I wanted to be was Chief of Naval Operations." Later, as a junior officer aboard the submarine Pomfret, he doggedly refused to be kept from his duties by seasickness. Recalls Warren Colegrove, who was the ship's engineering officer: "He'd take his [vomit] bucket with him to the bridge. He was a gutsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Jimmy Carter's Big Breakthrough | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...tugging at heartstrings, started a newly profitable trend toward sleeker soft-core scenes. Another approach provides new jolts for jaded fans. One current porn film, Sweet Movie, features a striptease for children, intercourse plus murder on a bed of sugar, grisly exhumations and a band of rollicking adults who vomit, defecate and urinate on one another to the strains of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The director, Dusan Makav?jev, professes to see the film as socially beneficial. Says he: "It is meant to have a lasting aphrodisiac effect and generally tone up the orgasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PORNO PLAGUE | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...wants people to know what a sterling character he is and how hard he works. He has not had a happy life, but he's never dwelt on it. He just put certain things aside and concentrated on the writing. I know it sounds Horatio Algeresque -he will vomit to think I'm putting him in that category. But it's true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GORE VIDAL: Laughing Cassandra | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

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