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...soon discovered that most of my classmates were certified low-grade morons, barely able to read, much less memorize and deliver a lengthy presentation to total strangers. Fred Fadukas, the bloke on my right, looked like something out of Famous Monster Magazine--truely grotesque--with a speech impediment to boot. He did not return after the second class. Betty Sue Bumptious, a 250-pound beauty, was worse. Couldn't even remember her own name: When the supervisor asked her to recite her speech, she hadn't even memorized the first line, and couldn't manage to repeat it when...

Author: By Charles B. Straus iii, | Title: The Year Off | 6/11/1974 | See Source »

Dudley's John "Cactus Juice" Carpenter, the Arizona Gila monster, couldn't seem to get around Marcus William's long left jab in the first round. Nor in the second. In the third round, he gained his mobility and a victory, by a single point, for the 145 lb. championship...

Author: By Gordon Rutledge, | Title: Boxers Pound Through Finals | 5/9/1974 | See Source »

...doubt that we have created a monster when even death is robbed of its privacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 6, 1974 | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...Actress Monique Van Vooren, 41, land the starring role of Frankenstein's sister in Andy Warhol's movie of that name? Says Writer/Director Paul Morrissey, "She has fiendish beauty." Then he described Monique's role. "She gets loved to death. Monique makes love to the monster, and he embraces her so passionately that he crushes her backbone. It's all in 3-D." Dimensions intact, Monique turned up at Rudolf Nureyev's opening night with the National Ballet Company of Canada in Manhattan last week on the arm of Warhol. Hugging them both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 6, 1974 | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...money she earns. Her six-figure income goes into a trust fund. Her lawyer gives her $250 a week as allowance, and she banks it. It seems a country star hardly has to buy anything. "A lot of people give you things," says Tanya genially. "Western belts. A white monster of a truck I call Moby Dick. And a man from South Dakota gave me a new breed of cow with a talent for putting weight on fast. A doctor in Houston promised me a pinto quarter horse if I would just stay the same and not get stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country's Teen Queen | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

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