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...satisfy me. He told me that when he was very much in love with a woman, his problem occurred." According to her diary, she had some problems herself. She had written about "defrosting" a young actor, and complained about how her husband's "horrible fingernails tried to caress my leg." What the lady would now consider fair is $5,000 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 12, 1965 | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...more a condition than a voice-something like three parts fog to one part frog. A doctor, upon hearing him for the first time, rushed up to caution: "With a throat like that, you should be home in bed." But that hoarse, honey-cured quality carried a certain tranquilizing caress that was his vocal signature and sustained him admirably through the years while legions of belters and bleaters flourished and died. With moistened lips and a flashing, yard-wide smile, he let a song uncurl from his cavernous mouth with the nonchalance of a man blowing smoke rings. He savored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: The King | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

Divinity as Beauty. Lips lift in a sublime smile, torsos twist into reverse curves that enliven flesh, and ornament clings to smoothly modeled skin like a caress of art given to nature. Beauty was a reflection of divinity, just as the slender saints that adorn Chartres cathedral are the disembodied spirits of medieval Christianity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Entranced Anatomy | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...mercy for the more than 100 theater parties that are already committed to go to this threnody. Whether she is nostalgically sashaying through a cane-and-straw-hat routine, or spinning head over heels on a giant Roto-Broil of a torture wheel, or running her voice like a caress over a romantic ballad, she has the star quality that transcends marquees and animates legends. In her bearing, timing, suppleness, versatility, she is a flawless professional. Her only wrong move in Jennie is being in Jennie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Disenchanted Evening | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...awesome when, with magnetic all-seeing eyes, he probes for Gideon's soul in a speck of human dust. Douglas Campbell can be a simple-minded oaf one minute and a Judaic Henry V the next, and his voice ranges even more remarkably from a love-lyrical caress to a doggish snarl. At one affecting moment, he says simply, "O, I love thee, Lord," and it is like hearing ineffable music carried on clear night air over still water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Proper God | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

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