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...Transition. Mary Lou led her two accompanists through the basic jazz vocabulary like a teacher running a spelling bee; posing questions in rhythm and harmony, she would close her eyes to listen for the answers on bass and drums. Often she seemed concerned with cliches. But somehow, when her fingers sounded the familiar oo-bla-dee and ba-ree-bop, the old phrases rang like new coinage. Which was only right, since Mary Lou minted them first. In the old days when she played "zombie music" and early bop, her style was constantly in transition, constantly a skip ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: The Prayerful One | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

That is roughly what Hollywood is doing. It used to produce an ever better line of girls-smoothly fuselaged, four-motored, flaps up, rubber-cushioned and sex-powered. Goddess after sleek goddess was projected into the skies, from the 1920s' Mae Murray of the bee-stung lips, the memory of whom is still enough to make old men tumble from rooming house porches, to Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood's last legend of sex. Fighting men in training for Cassino and Saipan were supplied with endless photos of film Aphrodites-Jane Russell in the hay; Rita Hayworth in a negligee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Sex Shortage | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

...Conjugal Bed--An acting out in human terms of the fierceness of the queen bee's desire for motherhood and the fate of the drone who dares to satisfy her. Unlikely as it seems, an extremely comic picture. The New Yorker, December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE MOVIES | 12/12/1963 | See Source »

...Conjugal Bed--Ugo Tognazzi and Marina Vlady star in a comedy about the acting out in human terms of the queen bee's desire for motherhood and the late of the drone who dares satisfy her. The Harvard Student Calender, December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE MOVIES | 12/12/1963 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Cow College Conversion | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

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