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...meanie met his match: a nutty little old lady who came around selling fairy stories. When he barked, she cackled crazily and said: "I know it's you, you nasty man. May you bark till you find somebody who loves you." The villain smirked disdainfully and went right on barking, but in a minute-yipe! The slumlord physically became the cur he essentially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Always Good for an Arf | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...Every morning he would go out, make three paintings, afterwards working on them a little at home. Except for his paintbox and easel, he looked like a peasant of the south of France, in corduroy coat and trousers. But enlarged in the statue, this corduroy looks like the bark of a tree. It looks like the texture he used in his Arles paintings, the great big scratches in his corn and wheatfields. Everything about him is so strikingly interesting. I did it with enormous enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Real Van Gogh | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...completely deaf: he perfected the phonograph in 1887 because his own faulty hearing made him fascinated by the science of sound. His invention so fascinated the public that in those early years audiences sat for whole evenings in stunned silence listening to the tinfoil phonograph crow like a cock, bark like a dog or babble in foreign tongues. Later, the German Pianist-Conductor Hans von Bulow was so moved by Edison's handiwork that when he heard a recording of himself playing a Chopin mazurka, he fainted dead away. In the early days Columbia slipped commercials in between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Terrifying Invention | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...continue giving arms to Cuba will be a patently aggressive act and will be regarded as such by us." He suggested that Kennedy should meet Khrushchev in a summit conference: "If Khrushchev assumes, because of some of the things that have occurred in the past few weeks, that our bark is worse than our bite, he may be tempted to push us too far. Thus he would precipitate the war neither he nor we want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: On the Road | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...news gives all dogdom paws. At the daily "twilight bark," an "All Dog Alert" goes out: Where oh where have those little dogs gone? They have gone, it seems, to join 84 other puppies in Cruella de Vil's Dalmatian Extermination Location, where they successfully and hilariously dodge the executioners until yelp arrives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pupcorn | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

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