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Shot in ten days at a cost of $75,000, Henry in more than one sense sets the industry back 33 years-it has negligible dialogue and virtually no plot. A frustrated husband makes dream-sequence love to the great volupines of history, even playing lava boy to a cave woman. From Delilah to Pocahontas, however, they all seem to have been rented from the same dairy. Says Producer Edward E. Paramore III: "It beat Ten Commandments by $500, opening night in San Pedro. You're not going to get our kind of success on nudes alone. Naked girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Nudeniks | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...Library space, faculty office space, and classroom facilities are the School's shrieking needs," noted Keppel. Pointing to the ceiling of his office in Lawrence Hall, he said, "see those cracks? We had to remove 30,000 books from the library upstairs because we were told second floor would cave...

Author: By Jonathan D. Trobe, | Title: Drive Passes $1.5 Million At Ed School | 5/9/1961 | See Source »

Bridal Rights. The Bar Kochba explorers-160 soldiers, students and kibbutz volunteers-had been led to the desert badlands just west of the Dead Sea by Archaeologist and former General Yigael Yadin. They found a treasure their first day at the diggings. In the same bat-infested, three-chambered Cave of Letters where he had discovered the rebel chieftain's papyri orders just a year ago. Archaeologist Yadin found some 60 more documents in a goatskin and a leather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...Eighth Day. Eight miles from Dr. Yadin's Cave of Letters in the Wilderness of Judah, the second archaeological team, headed by grey-haired Polish Emigré Pessah Bar-Adon, 53, dug through six feet of debris in another cave. On the eighth day, behind a smooth stone that blocked a wall niche, it discovered a collection of artifacts that Bar-Adon quietly described as "probably archaeologically sensational": 432 copper, bronze, ivory and stone decorated objects that seem to be mace heads, scepters, crowns, powder horns, tools and weapons. Ranging in size from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...told that the New English Biblemen wanted to change the accurate and acceptable "den of thieves" to "gangsters hideout" but were afraid the phrase lacked permanency; they settled instead for "robbers' cave." Such a re-reading is undoubtedly a conscious break with the past; it is also wanton destruction...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: The New English Bible: Truth in Bureaucratese | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

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