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...Antonio Como (José Luis López Vásquez) is a once powerful industrialist reduced by an automobile accident to a virtual vegetable in his own garden. His incapacity is pitifully childlike: to entice him to drink his daily milkshake, a servant must first bare her breast. But his mind still functions with chaotic clarity as he fantasizes the possible consequences of his helplessness. He sees himself in his wheelchair careening wildly across the quiet greensward and into the swimming pool; mailed lancers from the picture that covers his office wall safe appear before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Garlic and Sapphires | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

...picking through your dirty drawers, and undoubtedly some frail lady will turn your dead cock over with the tip of her Scripto looking for "meaning." But they will not find it here, not the same meaning they find in fine "homes" in the Berkeley hills, Wall Street, PepsiCola, Perry Como, Toilets, Nixon, crew cuts, and Cadillacs. You will have them understand what you mean by jive...

Author: By Lynn M. Darling, | Title: Books Mr. Jiveass Nigger | 4/18/1970 | See Source »

More recent and contemporary figures include Perry Como, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Jerry Vale, Liza Minelli, and Frank Sinatra. The atomic bomb was in part the work of Enrico Fermi who achieved the first nuclear chain reaction in America and who was present at the Los Alamos testing grounds. Fermi received the coveted Nobel Prize for Physics...

Author: By Lawrence S. Dicara, | Title: Sail On! Sail On! Sail On and On! | 3/5/1970 | See Source »

...Javits a "pompous, posturing ass"-which many Lindsay workers found doubly satisfying, since they were pleased to see Marchi pull such an obviously foolish blunder, and since secretly they may have agreed with Marchi's estimate. Marchi himself had to admit he had tarnished his image as "the Perry Como of politics." And then came M-Day with the Staten Islander revealing himself in no uncertain terms, accusing Lindsay of having stuck a dagger into the back of American servicemen. All in all, a line worthy of Strom Thurmond...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: John Lindsay at the Crossroads | 11/3/1969 | See Source »

ACADEMY OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTS AWARDS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Perry Como hosts the ceremonies that honor the out' standing professional athletes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Feb. 21, 1969 | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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