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...told largely in flashbacks-opens with a shot of Jenny's corpse. What is surprising is that Jennifer on My Mind is allegedly a comedy. The subject, which has only slightly less comic potential than Bangla Desh, was written up with unbounded vulgarity by Erich Segal, who has wrung laughs from young love and leukemia in his time. As in Love Story, however, they are all the wrong kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Smack on the Balcony | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

Failing the Test. The immediate trouble is that Connally's negotiating method is to press the other side to the limit, and to see what concessions can be wrung out before offering anything in return. That tactic may work at home, but Europeans do not bargain the way Texans do. Unpublished sections of a report adopted by the 55-member council of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, meeting in Geneva last week, indicated the danger. The report warned that if the U.S. import surcharge is still in effect by Jan. 1 and prevents the U.S. from carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Money: The Dangers of the U.S. Hard Line | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

...Jackson the grave was the life of black people in a racist society, the prison a kind of cemetery for the not yet dead, and the journey back from both could only be made through violent revolution. "All the gentle, shy characteristics of the black man have been wrung unceremoniously from my soul. The buffets and blows of this have and have-not society have engendered in me a flame that will live, live to grow, until it either destroys my tormentor or myself." Last week in San Quentin, the flame burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Death in San Quentin | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

...every place from mighty Harvard to lowly Podunk. Because many universities had grown fat and pampered, the first effects of the new austerity have been largely positive. Grandiose construction plans, harebrained experiments and trivial research-all these are being shelved or abolished. But only so much efficiency can be wrung out of a basically inefficient system without altering its nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Austerity on the Campus | 6/14/1971 | See Source »

...depiction of 'white power' a 'a marsh underfoot for anyone not white . . . treacherous and deadly' is, of course, wildly exaggerated," Time concluded its article with a forceful defense of King. "King's compromises were not capitulation, but sane and sound recognition of the way progress historically has been wrung from the American system...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: The God King Didn't Save- | 5/19/1971 | See Source »

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