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...counts to ten and talks about sleep in a sing song voice: "ONE You-feel-very-relaxed TWO You-are-fall-ing-to-sleep THREE ..." As he reaches the higher numbers, he begins to do a weird little dance, waving his arms like an albatross taking off, and lapsing into a chant: " Dee -perr and dee -perr...

Author: By Garrelt Epps, | Title: When You Awake, You Will Remember Everything | 2/28/1970 | See Source »

...walk around and it seems that everyone I ever knew is in the crowd, doing the same weird things I am to pass time. A lovely...

Author: By Dwid Ignatius, | Title: Off the Town After TDA | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

Peter overrebelled. Resentment exuded from his pores. Years later he recalled an early boarding school: "What kind of parents would send a kid away at six to make his own bed?" A childhood friend remembers him as "a weird kid, relegated to purgatory." Peter admits, "I was shy, difficult and I lied a lot." Peter may have been a hellion, but Jane was a well-behaved, red-haired stick figure at the Brentwood Town and Country School. Her class was filled with other kids as plain as Jane: Gary Cooper's and Claude Rains' daughters, Laurence Olivier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Flying Fondas and How They Grew | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

Colburn also finished last in his rematch Saturday with Czechoslovakia's Josef Plachy in the 1000. Plachy had come from behind to beat him two weeks ago in the Knights of Columbus Meet, but Saturday, Colburn was simply too tired to get revenge. "It was really weird not being able to move," he said last night...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Wins in Boston and in New York Highlight Track Team's Weekend | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

LION'S LOVE. Director Agnes Varda has some fun with this overlong, weird comedy. There is no plot and a lot of talk as Viva (superstar). James Rado and Gerome Ragni (co-authors of Hair ), and Shirley Clarke (underground filmmaker) gather in a Beverly Hills hacienda the weekend Robert Kennedy was shot...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Moviegoer Ten Best Films of 1969 | 1/9/1970 | See Source »

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