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...with collodion, hung with plastic eye-bags, festooned with soup strainers, monocles, nippers, wax teeth, putty nebs, and anything else he could find in his makeup kit, Guinness gleefully paraded himself before the public in a glorious album of absurdities. He has been a larcenous bank clerk, a commuting bigamist, a middle-aged suffragette, a bootleg genius, a buck-toothed fiend, a garden editor who liked vegetables better than people, the contents of a cannibal stew, a family of eight, an intellectual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Least Likely to Succeed | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

People Gushed. Other Coulterisms: "The mad struggle for money" breeds "immorality, delinquency and degeneracy." "A businessman told me how thoroughly enjoyable it was being a bigamist." Marriage clinics abound on the theory that "very few husbands and wives find their marriage sexually satisfying"; to release their "inner resentment, completely uninhibited husbands and wives gushed out the most astonishing intimacies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whee, the People! | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...year-old Fatmawati, who bore him two boys, three girls. In 1954 he took to wife lissome, 32-year-old Divorcée Heriati, and Indonesian women who had adored Sukarno turned away in outrage. Though Mohammedans are permitted four wives, emancipation-bound Indonesian women call Sukarno a "bigamist," sniff at Heriati as "That Woman," idolize patient Wife No. 2 (who is suing for divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: VISITOR FROM INDONESIA | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...tried hard to mix comedy with its gun fighting in The Last Duel in Virginia City, while Elgin Hour presented Black Eagle Pass, a homily on the evils of bigamy in the Far West. Paul Douglas got a single-tracked power into his role of the blackmailed and misunderstood bigamist, and the Western setting was apparently justified in the last act when Douglas' difficulties were neatly solved by a blaze of gunfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...Witness William Cummings, of Toledo, who swore Lamb was on a "must" list of Communist contributors, admitted that he was a bigamist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Lamb Stew | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

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