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Robert Ryan, Ernest Brognine, and John Ericson run the more conventional outlaw gamut, from ruthless leader to respectively brutal and sensitive followers. As the garrulous doctor and the besotted law officers, Walter Brennan and Dean Jagger convincingly exhibit the weaknesses which prevent either of them from acting against his criminal...

Author: By Ralph A. Austen, | Title: Bad Day at Black Rock | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

Only one picture was designed to remind Germans of Big Brother's big fist. Its title: The End. Subject: Hitler in his last moments in his crumbling Berlin bunker, a drooling, raving maniac surrounded by besotted generals. The rest of the exhibit was thoroughly predictable: noble Lenins, fatherly Stalins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Red Realism | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

Knaves & Skeletons. If places crinkled Carlyle's nose, so did most people, famed or humble. Publishers were "consummate knaves," and his own "a blockhead." He found Charles Lamb "a miserable, drink-besotted, spindle-shanked skeleton of a body, whose 'humour' as it is called, seemed to me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Goodykin, from a Genius | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast. Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gulliver in Context | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

1) A G.I. whose language is strictly from New Jersey, tries to reassure, and flirt with, a half-grown Sicilian girl who knows no English. A German sniper kills them both. 2) A Neapolitan street boy steals the shoes off a drunken Negro soldier. When the Negro spots him later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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