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...PUSSYCAT. Diana Sands and Alan Alda give top performances: Sands is a prostitute with a tongue of brass who moves in on a bookish clerk (Alda) in Bill Manhoffs flip and funny version of the contemporary form of the mating dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 18, 1964 | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...Broadway THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, by Bill Manhoff, is as timeless as a Punch-and-Judy show and as timely as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Diana Sands, as a sexy pussycat who claws, and Alan Alda, as a bookish owl who screeches, fill the evening with good, vulgar, neurotic laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Dec. 11, 1964 | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...Bitos-Robespierre, Donald Pleasence is phenomenally good THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, by Bill Manhoff, is as timeless as a Punch-and-Judy show and as timely as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Diana Sands as a sexy pussycat who claws and Alan Alda as a bookish owl who screeches, fill the evening with good, vulgar, neurotic laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 4, 1964 | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...pussycat (Diana Sands) is a hellcat, a down-to-dirt prostitute with a tongue of brass. The owl (Alan Alda) is more of a penguin with a hotfoot, a bookstore clerk whose bookish dignity is destined to be bruised beyond repair. As figments of their own imaginations, they conceive of themselves, respectively, as a model and a writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Punch & Judy Revisited | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...WORDS, by Jean-Paul Sartre. After a series of increasingly labored, metaphysically morose works, Sartre has written a clear-eyed, warm, but very sad account of his early years. The despair of modern existentialism, it turns out, is partly rooted in the struggle for sanity of a bookish, lonely child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 30, 1964 | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

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