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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Nations he may sometimes seem a dogmatic hardliner. It turns out that Soviet Ambassador Niko lai Fedorenlco, 54, is also reasonably good with the one-liners. He showed up on TV's Merv Griffin show, brandish ing a thick Havana cigar, which made him look as if he'd learned his Marx from Groucho. As he mentioned Channel 5, the station that broadcasts the show in New York, he grinned: "My wife likes Channel 5 (applause) . . . Chanel 5 from Paris, you know [laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 20, 1967 | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

...SISTER GEORGE. Frank Marcus' comedy hangs out the dirty laundry behind the scenes of a BBC soap opera On the air, Sister George (Beryl Reid) is a habitual hymn hummer, but once her loving listeners tune out, she stalks around her lesbian household as a gin-and-cigar-flavored tyrant with whiplash language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 11, 1966 | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...After 20 years of reading paperbacks on psychology, I feel qualified to offer my analysis of cigar smokers. Smokers are immature people who have never been completely weaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 14, 1966 | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...Sister George, in a sentimentally bucolic radio serial about a small English country town. In the serial, Sister George performs good deeds and put-puts around on her motor bike singing hymns with homey off-pitch piety. Off the air, in her London flat, Sister George is a horsy, cigar-chewing, gin-swilling, bull-roaring lesbian who coarsely flays her pliant companion, "Childie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Games Lesbians Play | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...girl with the cringing whine of an eternal sycophant and the wily compliance of a slave. At the arbitrary whim of Sister George, Childie must kneel and kiss the hem of her master's skirt, drink her dirty bath water or chew and swallow one of her soggy cigar butts. Childie's fraud is that while she plays the lesbian, she lusts after men and cheats on Sister George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Games Lesbians Play | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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