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Noisome chemicals and tear gas proved as repellent to the courier as to the cur. An electrified "shock stick" showed promise, but postmen preferred to use it as a club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Nor Gleam of Fang | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

...olde,' or, as for example is happening on the West Coast, the in dulgence in 'Japanesery.' This may even be tolerable, although derivative, eclectic, or full of gimcracks, when the alternatives are considered ... the chrome and glass, spit and polish, modular articulated, cur tain wall, mechanistic, slick finish, straight and endless directions which are spring ing up around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Looking Backward | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

...Wagged His Tail. Come dian Peter Ustinov plays a slumlord who is magically changed into a dog in this comic allegory about bringing to heel the cur within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 3, 1961 | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...Wagged His Tail. A mean old Brooklyn slumlord is magically changed into the cur he essentially is. Peter Ustinov plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 6, 1961 | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...tenement tyrant is so happy to find a friendly little boy (Pablito Calvo) that he doesn't even mind chasing sticks and wagging his tail-anything for a little human kindness. By film's end, the cur sees himself for what he is, and having learned humility is restored to humanity. Funny thing, though, how the dogs of the neighborhood keep running up to him and sniffing around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Always Good for an Arf | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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