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...lusty redhead (Hazel Court) with a cleavage that could comfortably accommodate the collected works of Edgar Allan Poe and a bottle of his favorite booze besides. Price demands her release. Karloff refuses. With Lorre grinning fiendishly in the wings, the two wizards cross wands in a demonological duel to the death. Sneering hideously, Karloff points his forefinger at Price: from the end of it, as from the barrel of a metaphysical peashooter, blue pellets of supernatural energy blip! blip! blip! Frowning sternly, Price points his forefinger at Karloff: from the end of it, green pellets of supernatural energy blip! blip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ugly Contest | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...Britain is the sick man of Europe." In Washington, a vengeful group of Rhodes scholars led by Dean Rusk tears the Mona Lisa to pieces. The Paris mob finds an elderly American lady who looks like Grandma Moses, and shreds her in retaliation. De Gaulle challenges Rusk to a duel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/7/1963 | See Source »

More respect was due. Beau Purple ran his race at the start, then folded. Kelso and Carry Back staged a killing duel for the lead until Carry Back ran out of gas. and the victory chant "Kelso! Kelso!" started through the stands. But it was not the Americans' day. Biding his time back in the pack, Saint-Martin deftly drove Match II past the winded field, coming through on the rail, gaining on Kelso with every long stride. "I saw him coming," said Kelso's jockey Ismael Valenzuela, "but I just couldn't do anything about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best in the World | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...picture really worth all that? Not really. But for 120 of its 179 minutes. The Bounty wallops along at a merry clip and proves splendidly seeworthy. Captain Bligh (Trevor Howard) and Lieutenant Christian (Brando), bound for Tahiti to pick up a cargo of breadfruit seedlings, commence a duel of wills as soon as they put to sea. When the captain gives a seaman 24 cuts of the cat for calling him a thief, the lieutenant reasonably inquires: "If one punishes a man so severely for a minor infraction, what does one do for a serious offense?" When the captain turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: And The Fish Flew | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...second flight of games at 3:15, Dudley will duel Silliman at Brown and Nichols; Dunster meets Jonathan Edwards on Field 1. On Field 2, Winthrop tackles Trumbull, which won the Harkness Trophy last year with a narrow 6 to 0 win over Kirkland...

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: Crimson, Yale to Meet in 17 Contests Today | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

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