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This transvestite from transexual Transylvania proceeds to seduce both the fiances, and involve them in his weird menage of people who sing "Now the only thing that gives me hope/is my love of a certain dope,/Rose tints my world...Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh" And the mush Janet who'd "only ever kissed before" seems to have forgotten her proper lines as the horror-story heroine; just as Frank's sonic transducer warps time, the visitors' old values distort: "Thrill me, chill me, fulfill me/Creature of the night" Janet sings when the traditional script would...

Author: By Dianna R. Lange, | Title: 'Flash Gordon Was There In Silver Underwear' | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...Radcliffe swim team traveled to Boston University Saturday with high hopes of winning its season opener, but ended up a soggy loser to the Terriers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Open Winter Season With a Kerplunk | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...Captiva, in the Gulf waters that lie south of Tampa, Fla. There, equipped with two lithographic presses, he presides over a working commune of printers and friends, whose timetable has become adjusted to his: breakfast at noon, swim, work all afternoon and evening, dinner never earlier than midnight. "You can't imagine," he cackles, "how many disturbances I miss out on down here." This landscape offers the clue to his recent work, beginning with the Hoarfrosts and continuing through Jammers, a series of delicate sewn constructions of silk, twine and rattan cane. They are without pretension, and hardly displace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Living Artist | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...their "noncurrent category." He would, however, soon turn up in Volume VI of Who's Who in American History. It probably does not matter so much where Hough is written up. But he should be read just about everywhere. If it is true that one learns to swim in winter and skate in summer, it is never too early to lay in supplies for the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Before the Fall | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...SWIM TEST--The widow of Harry Elkins Widener donated her husband's huge fortune and impressive book collection to the University on two conditions: the first, that not a single brick be removed from the Widener Memorial Library, and the second, that every freshman be required to pass a swim test in the IAB pool. Mrs. Widener felt that her son, who died tragically in the sinking of the Titanic, would have lived had he known how to swim...

Author: By Judith Kogan, | Title: Lies My Father Told Me | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

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