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After taking in the movie version of Oh Dad Poor Dad Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad, I walked into the manager's office at the phantasmagoric new Cleveland Circle Theatre to see about a photograph to run with this review...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Oh Dad Poor Dad Mama's Hung You In the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...these clothes all the time. In your closet. On your back. It's the colors. Like, colors are beautiful, you know? That's the first thing people who take LSD talk about. The colors. Look at these pants. The blue background is happening. And then the red and silver and gold. I think it's groovy. God just didn't give anyone pants like that. Some guy worked hard to think this up. And nobody appreciates it. Everybody should accept everybody else. I mean, what right have they got to judge my clothes? I like Mod. I like the freedom...

Author: By Reed Jackson, | Title: Groovy | 12/15/1966 | See Source »

...oise Dorléac) he has recently wed. She lusts for excitement, and suddenly she gets it. A mobster on the lam (Lionel Slander) staggers into the castle one fine day and institutes a nerve-shredding reign of terror: flashes his firearms, slashes the phone wires, crashes the liquor closet, mashes the host's nose, lashes the wife's bottom, smashes the family Jag, and generally behaves like the sort of fire-breathing, tear-dropping dragon who traditionally inhabits a medieval castle and wonders wistfully, as he adds another visitor to the three-story bone-pile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Razor-Edged Slapstick | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...spread to adjoining rooms. By ten, the firemen were coiling the hose and beginning to leave, and people started to filter back into the entry. Damage in G-41 was con fined to the furniture, smoke blackening water stains, and a small charred strip up one side of a closet door...

Author: By George R. Merriam, | Title: Cigarette Kindles K-House Mattress; Firemen Quell Blaze Amidst Cheers | 11/1/1966 | See Source »

...technically some sort of soldier, but as he explains early, "I am a victim, not a soldier." A very ignominious victim he is, unable even to get himself captured with the rest of his surrendering battalion. He was left behind because, in terror, he had hidden in a closet. An enemy soldier consents to take him prisoner, but then steals his spectacles, thus further cutting him off from the world, and forgets him. Here cowardice becomes the better part of valor. The hero takes refuge in an abandoned greenhouse near the headquarters of an enemy regiment. He sits in plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Gardener | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

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