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...every appearance of a proud parent. Then, back on location outside Rome for his new film on the life of St. Francis of Assisi, friendly local peasants presented the director with their traditional gift to the father of a newborn son: a basket of ricotta, a cheese made from ewe's milk and eaten on coarse black bread in the open air. Munching happily, Rossellini told a newsman: "I am the father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Basket of Ricotta | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...gimlet, and the morals of a beagle") looked pretty Romajean up & down, blinked, licked his lips, and allowed that maybe he could arrange to oblige. So Romajean came to sing in the choir of the Primitive Pentacostal Host Church, and Gudger figured that he had added another tender ewe lamb to his flock. Preacher Gudger's flock was largely old goat and tough mutton: Old Lady Clutiebelle Tippy, Thrash Mancil, Miz Pinniz Nice, Crave Tollett and a few dozen other crackers from the Orange County, Fla. flatwoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Florida Flatwoods | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...mechanism for the World Bank & Fund was set up last week at Savannah. Basic causes of the trouble were the old differences between Britain and the U.S. on how Bretton Woods should be implemented. But there was a new irritant. U.S. Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson looked like a weary ewe, but ran the nine-day conference with ram-like authority. He got exactly what he wanted-and the British be damned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Bad Start | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...Loud, ewe-mouthed, old-Ziegfeldian Funny woman Fanny Brice, in a Bronx rage involving her husband, her landlord and a winning sweepstake ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...step into the open as the nasty little package of feminine vixenity that she really is, she fails dismally. She does not seem to be able to register the depth of emotion called for. In short, she makes the audience hate her while she is playing the vixen in ewe's clothing, and then does not live up to that hatred when she assumes her true role of the vixen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 1/21/1944 | See Source »

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