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...Mind Benders. "PERVERTED! SOULLESS! A LOVE AFFAIR DESTROYED BY AN EXPERIMENT SO TERRIFYING IT DEFIES HUMANITY!" Sound bloody awful? It is. And that's a shame, because it needn't have been. The plot of this British thriller has a built-in beaut of a scientific gimmick: a visual recapitulation of some eerie experiments in "sensory deprivation" conducted recently in Britain and the U.S. Object of the experiments: to find out what happens to people who for long periods forgo the use of their senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, weight and direction...
...York, inevitably, furnishes a fascinating example. Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, now conceding that he made "a beaut of a mistake" last sum mer in the midst of his campaign for re-election in overestimating New York tax revenues by some $200 million for the coming fiscal year, nevertheless claims that he will observe his campaign pledge not to raise taxes. He is asking for a $48 million increase in state auto license fees and a $57 million hike in liquor license charges. Without a smile, he insists that these are not tax increases. Irate motorists, many of whose auto tabs...
...Pope and the President had several good laughs, and the best evidence is that this one came when the Pope, about to read his formal address in his newly learned English, prefaced it with the exclamation, "Ora ne senti una bella!" Translation: "This is going to be a beaut...
...Nash Rambler showroom, salesmen quickly took customers into their confidence: "Wanna see a beaut? This one here goes for twenty-seven seventy-nine." Pointing out an auto wtih a color scheme that included beige and a muddy violet, the dealer said, "I call this one brown monotone, you see, 'cause it's all different shades of brown." In response to a question on the number of miles per gallon the little Nash Metropolitan got, he admitted, "Actually you get 34 miles to the gallon. They claim a little more...
Guys and Dolls. Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine in Samuel Goldwyn's $5,000,000 version of the Broadway musical. It's a beaut, but Sam made the prints too long (TIME...