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...multilevel stage. Lenny was a microphone man; mikes perpetually cut in and out, held and handled as integral parts of the action. Giant effigies from Lenny's pain-filled mind loom and dangle suddenly into the set: Dracula, Jackie Kennedy, Little Orphan Annie, Richard Nixon. Even Hitler (in five-foot boots) and Eichmann (in his glass booth) stalk in for a turn. Some of the visual hyperbole misfires-notably an inchoate anti-church mélange with Moses and Christ turning up unfortunately as a couple of naked men in plastic bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Broken Taboo Breaker | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

Living by herself in that building, the small-boned, five-foot one-inch Cohen immediately made negotiations for her next building. She bought property in Boston along Commonwealth Ave. in Roxbury, and Malden, but the bulk of her investments were located in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Witch of Harvard. . . | 12/2/1970 | See Source »

...Station. Like members of some giant caravan at rest, they camped all over Cairo. They watched the comings and goings at the Kubbeh Republican Palace, where dignitaries made solemn calls. They wept at the new Nasr Mosque in the suburb of Manshiet al Bakri, where laborers silently dug a five-foot crypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Nasser's Legacy: Hope and instability | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...pocket champion has yet to be crowned. Verteran observers feel that tonight's match between Boston Shorty and Ronnie Allen will be crucial. The victor should be able to dominate the rest of the one-pocket field. Sentiment runs heavily in favor of Boston's five-foot, two-inch pool wizard, but the hard money makes the unpopular California motor mouth a 7-5 favorite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hustlers Come to Johnson City | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

...than 100,000 will pay $7.95 for the latest edition of his Guide, a 1,485-page, 909,000-word primer for peripatetics that weighs 2 lbs. 3½oz. Another 100,000 budget-minded tourists will spend $2.25 for Fielding's Super-Economy Europe; the rest of the Fielding five-foot shelf (he is his own publisher) includes a European shopping guide, time and currency converters and a guidebook to the Caribbean. Temp operates Temple Fielding's Epicure Club ?which, for $15.50 a year, guarantees the insecure traveler a somewhat phony VIP welcome at any of 29 top European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Guide to Temple Fielding | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

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