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...clown in Carol Channing sometimes upstages the actress, but this show thrives on her kind of showoff. David Burns may be the only man alive who can bark through his nose. Gower Champion keeps the choreography winging. His agile, toe-perfect dance company spends so much time off the ground that it should get flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Little Old New York | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...that they be sung in a "baby or Marilyn Monroe voice," a "Marlene Dietrich foggy voice," or a jazz singer's voice. There were also-as there are in much of the music she sings-passages calling for whatever noises she cared to make -a dog's bark, a grunt, a sigh. The audience responded with plain fury, moving Cage to recite a Zen parable in Berberian's defense: In a far country there lived a beautiful girl who was desired by all the men who saw her. One day she found herself alone at a river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: Frightening the Fish | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

...vanished. Another time they saw a door rimmed in blue light, with marble steps behind. At one point Throne screamed: "Davy, I'm going home! I'm going alone if you don't want to come." They drank brackish, sulphurous water, ate the bark off timbers that had been used to shore up the roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pennsylvania: Start of a Legend? | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

...poker cronies who usually wound up losers when Lemass played-to devote more time to the job. Sturdy (5 ft. 10 in.) and carefully groomed, he holds among his few foibles an aversion to the Byronic manes affected by many Irishmen, and he does not hesitate to bark at friends, underlings or his son when they need haircuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland: Lifting the Green Curtain | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...quite why-he dressed his plowmen and shepherdesses in costumes of the 18th century. But for the most part, Homer was faithful to what he saw-a boy and girl climbing over an old stile, a young girl seeking a scrap of shade, a lone woodsman affectionately stroking the bark of a tree, or a guide looking out over an empty lake. Three years after the Mountainville summer, Homer spent a summer in an English fishing village on the North Sea. There, for the first time, he began to see nature in all its aggressiveness. In time, his seas erupted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Inland Winslow Homer | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

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