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...should have kept the piece shorter, however. Though the writing reflects considerable discipline, the inchoate literary form she has chosen tempts Miss Bosworth into needless digressions. At times the juxtaposition of dialogue, description, and commentary becomes confusing, or worse, simply cute. Occasionally she packs too many images and adjectives into a paragraph. But these are technical criticisms. Here, I feel, is a writer with something legitimate to say and at least a rough knowledge...

Author: By Crutis A. Hessler, | Title: 'Mosaic' | 3/17/1965 | See Source »

...riddled with clichés. While Kuroki contends with a trigger-happy Buddhist, the American captain (Clint Walker) has to restrain a volatile young officer (played with unwarranted assurance by Singer Tommy Sands, Sinatra's son-in-law). The first meeting of G.I. and Jap ends with some cute business of swapping cigarettes for fish. There is a brief skirmish over a boat, but peace follows when Sinatra, as a drunken Irish medic, sobers up to treat the enemy wounded. "I'm a Band-Aid man," he quips, preparing to amputate a Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: War on the Flip Side | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

Model Wife. Bonnard's indoor art thrived on women. He loved them in awkward, innocent postures, when they let down their shields of glamor. Women for Bonnard were his wife, Marthe de Meligny, a cute midinette he met when he was 28. When they were married 30 years later, he found out that she was not aristocratic, only plain Maria Boursin, but his love never left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: The Distant Witness | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...instructor of medieval theology however, has been jumped to full professor. He recently completed a treatise of some 50 volumes on matters of the highest theological value. No senior Faculty member has yet read the work, but all are greatly impressed by its table of contents and the cute review it received in the CRIMSON...

Author: By Jack Auspitz and Robert Horowitz, S | Title: Four On Faculty May Go For Failure to Publish | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. Britain's Rita Tushingham is cute, cunning, brassy and just about everything else that a movie actress should be in this warmly witty account of an Irish colleen's romance with an aging author (Peter Finch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Oct. 2, 1964 | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

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