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Suzy soon gets an acrid whiff of reality when a new-found girl friend at the factory finds herself pregnant. The girl nearly dies at the hands of a drunken abortionist, then recovers and gets engaged to the boy responsible for her trouble. The night of their engagement party, he is knocked off his motorcycle by a lorry and dies in the street; a tragedy has its echo in Kendall's life when her own lover steals a car for their vacation and gets sent down for six months. "I'd much rather have taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Suzy's Two: Cynthia & Junction | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...permits? Oh, but it's obscene is it? Who are you kidding? Do you mean those colorful four letter words in the center-fold a couple of weeks ago? How long has it been since you've been into any of the newspaper stores around here and taken a whiff of the girlie magazines, the lesbian photo-replays, the glossy paper-back business? Why are they still being sold if Avatar is supposed to be obscene? Oh that's it, there is a lot of money tied up in the glossies and there are powerful publishing tycoons behind them...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Harvard Students on Trial | 1/29/1968 | See Source »

...Whiff of Grape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1968 | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

Other over-interpreters include the listeners who-like literary critics dissecting a sonnet-ferret out indirect references in Beatle lyrics and persist in catching a whiff of drugs in such innocuous songs as Yellow Submarine. And there is still the hardy minority that insists on viewing the Beatles as the great put-on of the century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Music: The Messengers | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...lord of the manor himself, who will, in the fashion of a hard-pressed British peer, show off the ten rooms, five baths and four fireplaces that make up his new pad, and take them for a stroll down Farkleberry Trail. For no extra charge, visitors also get a whiff of a fragrant political issue in the making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arkansas: Orval's Pad | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

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