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...they swim along in different fashions, facing and conquering some fish, losing to others, occasionally getting snarled in seaweed. Some rise to the surface, even leaping out for a breath of real air; others plunge to the depths...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin, | Title: Little Fish in a Big Pond | 4/22/1975 | See Source »

...using for years. Soon we watch Tommy tortured by one sadistic relative, then abused by another sex-crazed next of kin. Some of these scenes are stylized (there's no spoken script in the film), but not for distance's sake. Russell continues to shoot close and uncomfortable: bad-breath cinema verite...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Sure Playing a Mean Pinball | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...writers can get away with first-degree malice as well as Perelman: "I drew a deep breath, brushed a small, many-legged Arab off my sleeves and went down to unpack." Most of the other lines, though, could have been written for Groucho Marx and perhaps were: "I was tempted to fling him a lakh of rupees with a princely gesture. Not knowing how many ru pees there were to a lakh, though, I had to content myself with the princely gesture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Idiom Savant | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...into the act, and eventually the Los Angeles Times got a garbled version of Jennifer from a tipster. On Feb. 8 of this year the newspaper ran a story about a CIA-Hughes contract to raise a Soviet submarine supposedly sunk in the Atlantic. The CIA waited with bated breath to see if the rest of the press would pick it up or, worse, if the Soviets would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Great Submarine Snatch | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...Samphan was elected to the National Assembly. One April evening in 1967, during a peasant uprising in Battambang province that had set off an antileftist witch hunt in the capital. Khieu Samphan simply vanished. According to his family, he told his mother that he was going out for a breath of fresh air before dinner and never came back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Khmer Rouge: The Enigmatic Ghosts | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

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