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Just about the only benefit today's Negroes can trace to the standard Hollywood product is the current Black Power slogan, "Ungawa!"-a fake African chant from a Tarzan picture. Even in 1950 reruns, Negroes are chuckleheaded or criminal. In mystery pictures, it is a Negro who discovers the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE LATE SHOW AS HISTORY | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

Feiffer's stylized fairy tale can be read, some of the time, as light summer fiction. It is studded with scenes of cheerfully skin-deep satire and divertingly chuckleheaded dialogue. But occasionally Feiffer's laughter comes close to a stifled cry of anguish-in a way that has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seek, Seek, Seek | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

The Horizontal Lieutenant. Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss add up to 12 ft. ¼ in. of fun in a tall story about 4,000 chuckleheaded U.S. servicemen locked in unequal struggle with a superior enemy: one sneaky Japanese soldier.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 27, 1962 | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

The Horizontal Lieutenant. Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss add up to 12 ft. 1¼ in. of fun in a tall story about 4,000 chuckleheaded U.S. servicemen locked in unequal struggle with a superior enemy: one sneaky Japanese soldier.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 20, 1962 | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

When the baby is born, the unwed mother's parents pass it off as their own. "Remember, darling." says Mother, "for the rest of your life you must act as if your baby were mine. For the rest of your life you have to think: This isn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: For Crying Out Loud | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

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