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On the safe assumption that most moviegoers and or TV viewers have seen the Hitchcock original at least once. Director Thomas has played down the suspense, played up Scenarist Fred Harvey's daffy dialogue and laid on the De Luxe color with a heavy hand. The pace and direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Police Blotter | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

Lonesome Traveler is a title that needs a banjo accompaniment, and so does the book itself - a collection of short pieces about the wandering years in which he ambled through the experiences that look so impressive when summarized on the back of a dust jacket. Kerouac is daffy and exuberant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On & On, the Road | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

Too much of the rest of the show, adapted by Playwright Harry Kurnitz from his Broadway farce (TIME, Nov. 3, 1958), is unfortunately not very funny. For one thing, when Actor Brynner sets out to tickle the funnybone, he practically breaks the spectator's arm. For another, Kurnitz'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Feb. 22, 1960 | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

In the whole mad course of its 13-month revolution, Cuba never had a more daffy week. The major eruption came on one of Castro's beloved late-night "interview" shows, The Television World Asks. Hardly letting newsmen get in a question, Castro said in the course of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Circus in Town | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

Horror and consternation reign in the daffy duchy, whose rulers had not intended to win the war at all but to lose it. The whole object was to get rich quick on U.S. appropriations for war relief.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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