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...steel, had burned away a northern mist that has always obscured his vision. Time and again the grand rectangular frame of the Panavision screen stands open like the door of a tremendous furnace, and the spectator stares with all his eyes into the molten shimmer of whitegolden sands, into blank incandescent infinity as if into the eye of God. It is a mind-battering experience, an encounter with an absolute, and after it too much of the film seems merely human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Spirit of the Wind | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

...near for the rebels, for British troops began pouring into Brunei by air. Hawker Hunter jets of the R.A.F. buzzed low over rebel emplacements firing blank 20-mm. cannon shells; many rebel troops fled in terror because they had never before heard the shriek of a jet engine. Other rebels fought on, inflicted substantial casualties on Britain's tough little Gurkha troops. The Gurkhas retaliated by lopping off a few rebel heads. Finally British numbers began to tell and the rebels faded away into the jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia: Fighting the Federation | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Hilliard's program has already shown striking successes. Last year a local garment factory tested 25 women on relief for jobs as power-sewing-machine operators. All flunked, many unable to even decipher the application blank. After attending classes for six months, they retook the test; 18 passed. Nine months ago. a cab company rejected five reliefers as drivers because they could not fill out trip sheets. Last week, after Hilliard's treatment, all five were hired; one man earned $20 his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rx for Infectious Ignorance | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...perennial indebtedness by decreasing the flow of love notes, letters to grand-children, inquiries after health and other worthwhile pieces of first-class mail while fostering the insidious growth of gaudy packets addressed to "Occupant Apartment 3A," subscription come-ons to magazines that die even before the enclosed blank can be returned, plastic Christmas cards from liquor stores and similar abominations that have been assigned the hubristic rank of third-class mail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Numbers Racket | 12/11/1962 | See Source »

Moby Dick is an Orson Welles adaptation, some of it in blank verse, of Melville's novel. Some men tinker with old cars; Orson Welles tinkers with old masterpieces. His 1937 Julius Caesar, in Fascist uniform, was exciting theater. Moby Dick is a fiasco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Captain Bligh Swaps Ships | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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