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...Jest ain't what she should be when you're not here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Le retour de l'enfant prodigue | 7/17/1973 | See Source »

...pornographic films. Thus they develop superhuman expectations. Young girls believe that they should have intoxicating orgasms beginning with their first night in bed with a boy. Even when sex itself is pleasurable, young people are often aware that something is missing. As a young construction worker told Cottle: "Ain't anybody any more knows if he's in love or just turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The Embarrassed Virgins | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...jammed panel loose with a long-handled tool resembling a boat hook. The panel would not budge. After an hour of pushing, shoving and tugging-interspersed with streams of obscenities clearly audible to millions-the task seemed hopeless. "I hate to say it," said the exasperated Weitz, "but we ain't going to do it with the tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skylab: The Troubled Mission | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...parts of the lower river valley and flash flood warnings went out for the entire state of Mississippi, but the rains mercifully let up, the warnings were canceled and riverbank residents returned to their normal activities-which include watching the river. As one Mississippian said, "Dat Ole Man sure ain't behavin' good-he's cutting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Swollen Giant | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...exercise in false nostalgia, the good life of a Missouri River town in the 1840s being something modern audiences don't really know anything about without they have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. But, as Mark Twain also said, "that ain't no matter." What is the matter is that the good, strong stuff of the novel-Injun Joe's mysteriously sinister nature, the murder in the graveyard, Becky and Tom lost in the cave, even Huckleberry Finn's subversive restlessness-is truncated and flattened. The idea seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Whitewash | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

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