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...Buster Keaton Position...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: 'Cliffies Emulate Cobras, Limpid Pools | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

Moynahan, who took up Yoga only a year ago, and who is "Of course not!" a Zen Buddhist, explained the exercises with a faint Boston accent. One pose, with the left arm stretched forward and the right hand holding the right foot behind the back, Moynahan described as "the Buster Keaton position...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: 'Cliffies Emulate Cobras, Limpid Pools | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

...Buster Keaton, utterly wasted in one brief sequence, might have told Director Kramer a thing or two about the shrewd use of slapstick to coax belly laughs from an episode that has three comedians tearing down a garage with all the deadly, humorless efficiency of a professional demolition crew. Cutting from incident to incident, car to car, ground to air, the film dissipates its fun at every turn, and the only chase to build up steam is a Chase named Barrie, who dances a wicked deadpan twist. Mad World reaches its nadir with an abortive climax that puts Spencer Tracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blockbuster & Bust | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

...Ford (who did some testimonial commercials last year for Camels) says: "Cigarette smoking is dangerous for your health. I guess we all know that science has proved it to be the major cause of lung cancer." Other anti-cigarette athletes: Track Stars Jim Beatty and Tom Courtney, Tank Stars Buster Crabbe and Patricia McCormick, Fighters Jack Dempsey, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Floyd Patterson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Ads in Reverse | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

True, a few families have had a minimum amount of power. Buster Bray has kept the Dirty Shame alight with electricity generated by a diesel Caterpillar in a shed behind the saloon. But "the Monster," as he calls it, has been running night and day for three years. It costs $26 a day, and, when it coughs at night, it wakes up folks for miles around. Bray is waiting impatiently for the rural cooperative to string its power-line to his part of the valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montana: The Lights Go On In the Yaak River Valley | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

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