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Despite the script, The Lion in Winter often succeeds, primarily because of its stars. O'Toole, as the cunning, quirky King Henry, explodes with lofty authority when he catches his snarling cubs trying to unseat the old lion, or when he condemns his malign wife to lifelong imprisonment. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Sovereigns Next Door | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Announcer: "A handful of girls are already enrolled in the 'critical' language program, and many hope that these cunning linguists are a hint of things to come."

Author: By Paul Houston, | Title: Off-Key Band Shows Jangle Some Nerves | 11/14/1968 | See Source »

But there is no solution to the problem of Eva, at least none available to planning or cunning. She is strange, capricious, almost moronic. What she is looking for, as she darts about in her Jaguar or flits from London to Chicago or Paris, is a usable identity and some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unlit by Love | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

To use Brasselle's own fractured English, The Cannibals is "self-servicing." That is clear enough from the author's portrayal of the first-person narrator, Joey Bertell, the only one in the novel who comes on like the white tornado. He has sung and danced as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roman a Kink | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

But Frayn employs the whimsy with considerable cunning, soothing the reader into a false sense of security. Creating a kind of Alice in Wonderland in reverse, he shows a powerful and peculiar imagination. Like Alice, Uncumber leaves her safe, dull, comfortable home. But where Alice retreats down a tunnel from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncumber in the Detritosphere | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

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