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...painter's astonishment when she arrived at his studio early in the morning wearing a red velvet dress; it was a cast-off sent by relatives in Cuba where women didn't stifle themselves. During an experiment with LSD, she blurts: "I want to explain to you why women weep. IT IS THE QUICKEST WAY TO REJOIN THE OCEAN." The ocean mimes this woman's fluidity, color and sensuality...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: A Way to Rejoin the Ocean | 10/25/1974 | See Source »

...Your article on political wives made me weep. I left Washington in '65 - physically and mentally torn. No one seemed to accept or understand the divorce. I'm still struggling to stabilize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 21, 1974 | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...sisters must weep, let them do it over the graves of the brave men who gave up life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to fight for what their country (right or wrong) decided had to be defended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Sep. 30, 1974 | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

...claim went--then when people in Cambridge retreated from political activism they should have gone to the movies more. But the reverse is true, and true because almost without exception the best movies stem from a realistic base that may be transformed, fantasized, or abstracted--they weep in one eye, they may cry in the other, but they are grounded in reality. The Welles's Larry Jackson thinks that the Nixon administration hurt people's interest in good films just as he thinks it crushed the student movement "just after the first moratorium." Since then, he says, "films that accentuate...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: The Movies in Cambridge: Some Thoughts, Some History | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...present as well as his son. There is a climactic moment when Pirsig thinks that he is again losing his grip and that Phaedrus may regain control. He decides to send the boy home by bus and check into a hospital. The boy refuses to go and begins to weep uncontrollably. Then, for the first time, father and son confront the painful truth about Phaedrus. The past and present come together, and Pirsig and Chris, who up to this point have seemed like subject and object, are united by what might be appropriately described as the underlying quality of familial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Enormous Vrooom | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

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