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...mock-heroic tension of the game has been soundly established when Director Cook brings on his ace. Henry Fonda, in a lip-twitching portrait of a loser, appears as a homesteader en route to a 40-acre chunk of Texas with his plucky little wife (Joanne Woodward) and his young son. Though he has sworn off cards, Fonda breaks into a cold sweat as soon as he sniffs the deck, possibly because he shuffles so poorly. The imminent loss of his life savings brings on a heart attack and, with a final $20,500 pot at stake, Joanne primly takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Aces Wild | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

HARPER. As a private eye on a kidnaping case, Paul Newman bites off a chunk of the Bogart tradition and spits it out in slick '60s style. Lauren Bacall, Arthur Hill and Julie Harris complicate the plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 15, 1966 | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...architect had been commissioned, $8,429 had been set aside for a huge chunk of Texas red granite, and last week the city fathers of Dallas approved the wording for a roadside marker at the spot where John F. Kennedy was assassinated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Little D | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

Seventy-Seven Dream Songs, a chunk of an unfinished long poem on which he has been working since 1955, was published two years ago by Farrar Strauss. The dream songs, in a word, are unexampled. All the difficult on a first reading; a few, for me, remain nearly opaque after many. Berryman's of-repeated description is helpful: "The poem is about a man named Henry. ('It is entirely about a man named Henry,' he told his Harvard audience last month.) He has a tendency to talk about himself in the third person. His last name is in doubt...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: John Berryman - 1 | 4/12/1966 | See Source »

HARPER. As a private eye on a kidnaping case, Paul Newman bites off a chunk of the grand old Bogart tradition and spits it out in slick '60s style. Lauren Bacall, Arthur Hill, and Julie Harris help to complicate the plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Apr. 8, 1966 | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

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