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The casket-choosing scenes can be a bore, too. But Jay, doubling as the Prince of Arragon, emerges as a delightful fop. Robert Evans makes the Prince of Morocco a glum, dead-pan character, with unfortunate results. The only way to save him is to play him for comedy, as...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Merchant of Venice | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

The Parisienne (Lopert; United Artists) fires off BB again, in far and away the most delightful of the seven Bardot reports that have popped in the U.S. in the past two years. Scriptwriters Annette Wademant and Jean Aurel have turned out an original screenplay with a plot that is no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

The plot, spooned out sparingly at the end like onion soup after a champagne-sodden night, concerns a vice ring, but there is not enough of it to spoil a delightful jag.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tender Is the Fulbright | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

What makes Haniwa art the more beguiling is that it plants modern Japanese art in the bedrock of the nation's culture, before Buddhism was imported from China and Korea. Gallerygoers readily identify the unchanging gabled houses still found in country districts, and the traditional peasant women's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Haniwa Rage | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

It is very doubtful that this principal--head of one of the best schools in educationally-praised Westchester County, N.Y., really believed in this dichotomy of upbringing; certainly in her own school, which, many parents believed, was run by the PTA, she did not practice it. But her remark indicates...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Public Schools Call for Co-operation Between School, School Board, Public; But Such Harmony Breeds Many Dangers | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

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