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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before too long-say around the fourth or fifth minute of running time -Raquel Welch is gang-raped by three desperadoes and left to die in her flaming hacienda. Things got pretty rough back there in the Old West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Mae West | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...been amply proved in the past, Miss Welch's acting ability is greatly overshadowed by her endowments. Consequently, her thrashings and grimacings while being assaulted assume an air of piquant comedy. Nothing will do after being so shamed but for Miss Welch to ride out for revenge. This presents a problem since the scoundrels have swiped the horses as well as murdered her husband. The resourceful Raquel, of course, gets both a new mount and a new man in the person of a bounty hunter named Thomas Luther Price (Robert Gulp). Price takes her to Mexico and teaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Mae West | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...Miss Welch seems obsessed with becoming Mae West. Perhaps it's just that she never recovered from Myra Breckinridge, but Raquel tosses out lines like "There aren't any hard women, only soft men" that are the sort that Miss West used to dispense. She, however, had a shrewd sense of self-parody. Raquel doesn't get the joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Mae West | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

Others see McGovern's economic policies as similar to the once-radical ideas of Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s. Contends Jack Kaplan, former owner of Welch's Grape Co.: "People accused Roosevelt of plotting the destruction of the capitalistic system, but the fact is that it emerged stronger as a result of his efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Why Should the Rich Back McGovern? | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...negotiations weren't getting any of us anywhere," Patricia Welch, a waitress employed by Cronin and one of the founders of HSWOC, said. She said that after ten meetings, Cronin had agreed to sign only one minor detail of the 24-article contract proposed by the union. "Mr. Cronin never drew up a list of counter proposals as he had promised to do," she added...

Author: By Robin Freedberg, | Title: Waitresses Strike Against Square Regular | 6/15/1972 | See Source »

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