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Alain Cluny and Arletty are delightfully evil as the envoys, and Jacques Prevet's script and Marcel carne's direction make Cluny's defection from the diabolic cause later in the Picture seem natural enough-although the viewer may at first be left wondering if this is not just another...

Author: By John A. Pope jr., | Title: Les Visiteurs du Soir | 3/9/1955 | See Source »

"My blood pressure is poifick. It was 150 vitriolic and 98 diabolic . . . The doctor . . . said I had a coupla minor ailments and I says, 'That's funny. I never woiked in the mines ... So he told me I had fallen archeries . . . Since I went on that diet I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What a Built! | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

France's Architect Le Corbusier, the prophet of vertical living who thinks that even Manhattan skyscrapers are too small, came in for some criticism last week in London's Economist. His familiar prescription for overflow populations from ever-growing cities is the super apartment house, a kind of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Horizontal or Vertical? | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

On the eve of her Metropolitan Opera debut in La Boheme, Soprano Patrice Munsel found that the tabloids had headlined her in a real-life Fledermaus mixup. Ingenue leads: herself, and a coal-mine heiress named Sally Mundy. Male leads: Gregg Juarez, a sometime television actor, and Robert Schuler, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Home Folks | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Insidious Flower. Bishop Berggrav first investigates the nature of the enemy-the diabolic state "which seeks to dominate the entire life of its citizens (perchance under the guise of democratic forms)." He quickly dismisses as superficial the view that modern dictatorship is a historical episode which has sprung up quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unpleasant Christian | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

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