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That molish little man who had previously peered out from a scotch-bottle and tortoise shell opaque to murmur, "Bacchanal, simply bacchanal," was asleep in a lump on the floor, draped in the silk standard of the Dominican Republic.

Author: By Alexander Kerensky, | Title: Lubricated Camaraderie | 5/1/1958 | See Source »

A climax of sorts builds when Mrs. Halloran, feeling pretty good on the day before the scheduled holocaust, puts on a tiara ("My crown!") and throws a farewell bacchanal all over the lawn for the poor villagers. Fools, they don't know any better and go ahead and have a...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: Shirley Jackson Presides Over the End of the World | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

Last week Sihanouk (who has served five times as Premier, rules the country whether in office or out) was back from a long vacation in France, 20 pounds lighter and with some brisk new ideas. Calling his Sangkum Party to a convention in Pnompenh, he listened patiently while Sangkum Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Late Wisdom | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Kroll frankly admits that "the nude studies might have shocked the ladies if they had been alive" (only one of them is: handsome, octogenarian Mrs. De Courcy Wright Thorn of Baltimore), but he points out, "That way I could capture the movement of the body better, the fall of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Barrister & the Beauties | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

The curtain closes on the prologue, and acrobats, like an avalanche of oranges, come tumbling at the camera, with jugglers and parti-colored harlequins who set the screen to flailing like a crazy quilt in a squall. Enter the mime again, this time with bells on his ankles, wrists and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 11, 1956 | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

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