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About to meet George Wallace for the first time, British Labor M.P. Bruce George was expecting an ogre. To his surprise, the Alabaman turned out to have "delightful charm." Wallace brushed off barbed questions, the M.P. noted, with an "impish grin and laughing eyes." The M.P.'s reaction was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Turning On the Charm in Europe | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

So ends Ian Fleming's delightful spy novel, From Russia with Love, with James Bond's fate left hanging. Agent 007, of course, survives to brave new dangers in Doctor No, in which it is revealed that he had been dealt a near fatal dose of fugu poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIA: Toxin Tocsin | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

Goyette's defense of the plot's 19-year holding pattern extends to the aesthetics of the current set-up. "Many say it's very delightful to have an open space as it now exists"--a space, he said, that can be "viewed and enjoyed by all who walk by...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: A Free Garden for the Fly | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

The female imagination is hardly a new topic for comment. In chauvinist circles, women's imagination is usually spoken of as a charming commodity, fanciful and flighty, and lacking in rigor. The "woman's point of view" is considered to yield delightful and unexpected (because illogical) associations which form a...

Author: By Wendy B. Jackson, | Title: Women Under the Influence | 5/13/1975 | See Source »

But above all, it is the magnificent performance of Rochelle Crasnick as the plain-thinking, plain-speaking, all-knowing maid, Dorine, that does the most to elevate this production to its consistently high level. Like most of Moliere's family servants. Dorine is the only truly unaffected character in the...

Author: By Junny Scoll, | Title: Saucy Satire | 5/2/1975 | See Source »

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