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...Snowdon who, in a speech to the nation's souvenir manufacturers, condemned most of their output as "low British rubbish." A trained architect (though he flunked his Cambridge exams) and a wizard handyman, Snowdon designed the impressive new aviary at the London Zoo and an improved motorized wheelchair. In sum, he calculates that he spends 80% of his life being Antony Armstrong-Jones and 20% being Lord Snowdon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Lord Snowdon on Pets | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...with attempted murder. Since then, however, neither the authorities nor Elrod has shown much interest in prosecuting the case. After a grand jury reduced the charge against Flanagan to aggravated battery, the prosecution consented to three continuances. The reason for their reluctance seems political, not judicial. Campaigning in a wheelchair, Elrod is running for sheriff, and the trial can only hurt his campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Police: Tales of Three Cities | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...caused by brain swelling). Aided by his teammates, who inaugurated the annual Maurice Stokes All-Star Game to raise funds for his therapy, he began a gallant struggle for recovery. Completely helpless at first, he eventually regained partial use of his hands and voice, but was confined to a wheelchair until his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 20, 1970 | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...industry grows up; Billy grows old. Sans hair, sans teeth, sans wives, sans everything, Billy Bright wanders from park bench to wheelchair replaying his memories to another burned-out star, Cockeye (Mickey Rooney). But Billy is no screen-size Pagliacci. Instead, he proves to be a garrulous embarrassment who keeps popping up on TV commercials and late-night talk shows. Audiences had thought him long dead; now they wish he were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Burned-Out Star | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...returned to his motherland once more, where, again, he is working on his "last" film. Under the sullen skies of Toledo, he directs scenes from Tristana, a dissection of Spanish middle-class society. One scene is purest Buñueliana: a crumpled, baggy-eyed Catherine Deneuve sits in a wheelchair, munching empty ice cream cones. Pushing the wheelchair is a deaf-mute with a demented stare, while from a park bench a large woman breast-feeding her child stares vacantly at the tragic caravan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Love-Hate of Luis Bunuel | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

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