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Grosz, the sardonic sadomasochism of Bertolt Brecht, the tinkling melancholic musical style of Kurt Weill, and the plumpish, thigh-bared, black-gartered allure of Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel. Add a living link to the period in Weill's widow, Actress Lotte Lenya, with her cynical eyes and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Kit Kat Kutups | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

Although Seraphina is about to be boiled in molten wax in this week's com ic strip, any faithful reader of Jeune Afrique (Young Africa) can be confident that she will escape and vanquish her enemies to the applause of all the neutralist nations of the "third world."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Voice of the Third World | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

Lunar Bombardment. Writing in Nature, Physicist Kuan-Han Sun suggests that a combination of the solar wind, meteorites, and lunar temperature changes provide ideal conditions for thermoluminescence-the release of stored-up energy in the form of visible light during a rapid temperature rise. Like other bodies in the solar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Dr. Sun & the Moon | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

Sir: I've discovered why the artists of the Hamptons, the Russians and the Poles prefer to drink their vodka "neat." I recently tried to concoct a truly Russian mixed drink-vodka and beet borscht, blended with a dab of sour cream and topped off with a miniature boiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 21, 1966 | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

Class Selective. The most significant source of lead poisoning was wine. To help preserve and sweeten it, the Romans added a syrup made of unfermented grape juice that had been boiled down in lead-lined pots, thereby greatly increasing the absorption of lead. Unfortunately the Romans did not understand, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toxicology: Lead Among the Romans | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

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