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Whoever wrote the article on Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper is suffering from a terminal case of cutesie. Normally I would have groaned or hissed at the atrocious gags and half-witted attempts to outwit MTM's superwits, but I didn't have enough energy left to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: How to Avoid Courtroom Tilt | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

> Brooklyn Congressman Hugh L. Carey, 55, easily upset Howard J. Samuels, 54, in the race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Samuels, a millionaire manufacturer with an impressive public service record, was making his fourth try for the Governor's mansion and was so confident of victory that he had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: Fresh Faces Were Not Enough | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

Generally, however, a day with the games is an anxious, sweaty thing-like the fever dream of a dull-witted materialist. As an experience, it is far less resonant than watching those former targets of cheap-shot cultural critics, the soap operas. At least the soaps deal with a few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

In Italy, Author Luigi Barzini marveled at the way the U.S. has "survived bad Presidents, dim-witted Presidents, and Presidents who would have brought the country to ruin if they had had their way. It has survived the murders of a few good Presidents. It can survive the resignation of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL VIEW: A COOL REACTION FROM ABROAD | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

This plot seems more aptly suited for comedy and is inadequate to convey any political messages Wertmuller intended. Her material is simple and scant, for the dim-witted peasant has no ideological beliefs to articulate and a thick blanket of fear stifles his emotions. Except for one drunken outburst and...

Author: By --martha Stewart, | Title: Catatonic Assassination | 8/9/1974 | See Source »

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