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...days with both eyes showing, serving tea to friends? Her famed, blonde "peekaboo" hair now wavy rather than flowing, thrice-married Miss Lake is settling in Suffolk. Marriage? "I don't have any special man friend-although I do enjoy an Englishman's company and wit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 2, 1970 | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

Dick Cavett has long been the Adlai Stevenson of television. He is a cultivated wit who could not bring himself to talk down to anyone or get anyone to pick up his option. ABC, to its credit, kept giving Cavett another chance-three times in different talkshow slots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV & Radio: A First for Cavett | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...displays her elliptical style and uncanny control of an abruptly shifting narrative. As always, too, she is something of a conundrum. Critics have likened her to writers as varied as Isak Dinesen and Evelyn Waugh. Normally confident commentators grope helplessly to describe the seductions of her stories, citing her wit, her urbanity, her Roman Catholic convictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Whydunnit in Q-Sharp Major | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...Agnew, withhold your wit and will. Desist from your dissonant diatribe and rejoin the ranks of the silent majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1970 | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...files had been removed from the building in anticipation of such an incident. No, he didn't think X (one of the more prominent student propagandists against the CFIA) was responsible for the bombing, because X "was just a talker." The scribbling reporters seemed to appreciate Mr. Bowie's wit...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Autumn Divinity Ave. | 10/16/1970 | See Source »

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