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...thudding banalities they are forced to utter, the actors man age a lively display of cocktail-party intelligence. Deborah Kerr is very pukka memsahib, and Barry Nelson displays his boyish charm, though the patina of age has begun to dull it. Frank Langella turns out to be the drollest character onstage with his stubborn macho pride in the size of his tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Primordial Slime | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...continually interrupted by a farcical gallimaufry of gulls, lechers, tricksters and cynics. Some of their names indicate their foibles: Scandal, Tattle and Mrs. Frail, a succulent baggage of seeming accessibility who hopes to bed her way to wealth. Thanks to the brushstroke acting skill of John McMartin, the drollest portrait of all is Foresight, a doddering astrologist so fervently absorbed in his zodiacal predictions that he fails to notice that his wife is cuckolding him under the age-old sign of Venery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Elegantly Spicy | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...Murder Cave. Not all environ ments contain figurative art. Buffalo's recent "Second Festival of the Arts Today," staged at the Albright-Knox Gallery (TIME, March 15), included five abstract environments. Drollest among them was the Pneumatic Garden of Eden, created by M.I.T.'s Otto Piene, in which huge, air-filled plastic tubes waved in the air like undersea coral growths in a darkened room lit at shin level by slowly flashing lights. Delicately disturbing was Lucas Samaras' Mirrored Room No. 2, part of the Albright's permanent collection. The room (see overleaf) was plated with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: On All Sides | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

MARY POPPINS. Walt Disney's drollest film in decades has wit, sentiment, lilting tunes, and an irresistible performance by Julie Andrews as the proper London governess with a flair for magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 30, 1964 | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

MARY POPPINS. Walt Disney's drollest film in decades has wit, sentiment, lilting tunes, and an irresistible performance by Julie Andrews as the proper London governess with a flair for magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 23, 1964 | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

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