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...half-hour show in effect presents an annual play in 250 acts. In outline, the soaper as reborn on TV is not too different from the old radio formula, but video has added a whole new set of visual symbols-for instance, the ferocious grille-work of a noncurrent Buick under which Monticello's noble and innocent Sara Karr lay unconscious last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Edgeville, U.S.A. | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

Nachat Martini, 50, kissed his wife goodbye, waddled from the door of his chateau in suburban Servon, and got behind the wheel of his Buick. The horn began to sound insistently, and his statuesque wife Helene rushed out to find her 5-ft. 5-in., 220-lb. husband sprawled over the steering wheel, his body quivering from a massive heart attack. In a few moments, the uncrowned "King of the Place Pigalle" was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The King Is Dead | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...professional auctioneer commanded all attention. At the rate of 72 a day-one every seven minutes during three sessions daily-the auctioneer sold new 1961 autos from Europe and Detroit. In the frantic bidding, a Fiat went for $7,000, a Ford station wagon for $15,000, a Buick for $23,000, a Cadillac for an incredible $50,000. When the ten-day auction ended, 617 cars had been sold, about $10 million had changed hands, and the government of Arturo Frondizi had cleaned up a tidy $7,500,000 in profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Solid-Gold Car Sale | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...soldier himself hovers on the edge of death. In all the other paintings, Rivers has already become bored with subject matter. In a painting called United Nations, he uses stenciled letters, suggesting country-identifying name plates, to heighten the contrast of readymade reality and pure imagination. His Buick Painting with P is not so much a picture of the rear end of a car as a study in force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Fruits of Boredom | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...Hope Buick Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The usual Mach 2 patter, this time originating at the U.S. Air Force Academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 21, 1960 | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

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