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...matter of lighting. There is actually an invisible performer walking around the stage manipulating the bow tie. The invisibility is achieved through a stage-light trick known to conjurers since the darkest of the Dark Ages. Under properly angled lighting, a black object against a black backdrop cannot be seen by an audience. Developing its material on this simple principle, a Czechoslovak troupe known as the Black Theater of Prague has become internationally famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Balletomime | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...steaming, rain-forested republic. No sooner had an army coup toppled Gabon's President Léon Mba than De Gaulle came to the rescue. With a lightning strike of planes and paratroopers, he restored Mba to power and demonstrated that the grand Gaullist manner extends to darkest Africa as well as to Europe and America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gabon, West Germany: De Gaulle to the Rescue | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...hear about Smith's experimental "Interim" program when you are buried in the depths of darkest reading period is to love it immediately. Hre is a way to make January a real month again. Here is a way to combine the best features of a trimester plan (a long, pressure-free Christmas vacation) and a reading period (three weeks of academic freedom and flexibility) and simultaneously to do away with the horror of a long-anticipated week of exams...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Smith Kills 'Interim' | 2/12/1964 | See Source »

...tangled entrails' darkest woods...

Author: By Heather J. Dubrow, | Title: Spanish Journal | 11/14/1963 | See Source »

...Left Bank, they seemed unlikely ever to cross the waters to trouble puritanical American ears. But times change. That hoary pornographic classic, Fanny Hill, sits cheek by drool with The Joy of Cooking in the local bookstore. Of all long-forbidden literary fruits, Jean Genet was always the darkest and most dangerous. U.S. audiences have already been teased by exposure to a pair of Genet plays. And now for the first time, U.S. readers are to be plunged into unadulterated Genet prose in the form of his first novel. Appearing almost simultaneously is Sartre's 625-page preface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Case of Jean Genet | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

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