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TIME underestimates the power of John Travolta's erotic intensity and charisma in his latest film, Staying Alive [July 18]. His performance made me, a conservative housewife, mother and C.P.A. from Ohio, want to abandon all for the frenetic and aphrodisian life of a dancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 8, 1983 | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

Sophia is cast as an Aegean sponge diver. One day, as this Aphrodite rises dripping from the wave, her aphrodisian bosom is heaving with excitement. She has discovered a piece of ancient Greek sculpture-a golden boy on a bronze dolphin - which has lain for 2,000 years on the floor of the Aegean. Sophia is determined to sell her discovery to the highest bidder, and before long an American archaeologist (Alan Ladd) and an American millionaire (Clifton Webb) are hard in pursuit of whatever it is that Sophia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 22, 1957 | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

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