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...dour faces in a waiting room break into responsive chuckles when he laughs; so tender that he can console the courtesan for the loss of her lovers, the English, French, Italian, and Russian generals; so defiant that after a mine he has attempted to open collapses, he shakes his fist at the obstinate mountain and vows to conquer it. And his delivery of the movie's unforgettable line is perfect. Earnest yet energetic, he says to the young Englishman beside him, "Boss, you've got everything--looks, brains.... But you need a little madness...

Author: By Heather J. Dubrow, | Title: Zorba the Greek | 3/10/1965 | See Source »

...Hitler," he shouted, "but you are an evil man!" Whereupon Clark knocked him, mouth bloodied, to the ground. Said Clark later: "If I hit him, I don't know it. One of the first things I ever learned was not to hit a nigger with your fist because his head is too hard. Of course, the camera might make me out a liar. I think I have a broken finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: The Freedom Fever | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

From a window of the grey, six-story U.S. embassy in Saigon, Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and U.S. Military Advisory Chief William Westmoreland gazed down on the violent scene. Massed in the street before the embassy was a cursing, fist-shaking throng led by some 300 yellow-robed Buddhist monks and nuns, screaming demands that the U.S. abandon Premier Tran Van Huong -and thinly veiled invitations that it get out of South Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Tear Gas & Burning Books | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...line of duty, Marlowe kicks one killer in the face, empties his gun into another, and systematically wounds a third and sends him out to be machine-gunned by his own cronies. Marlowe himself is brutally "worked over" in an alley, knocked out with a loaded fist, shot at twice, wounded once, and almost raped by one of his clients. Altogether, there are seven murders (four on the screen) and four merciless beatings--enough to catharsise anyone's sadistic impulses...

Author: By John Manners, | Title: A Viewer's Guide to Bogart: Four Classics, Huston's Joke | 1/21/1965 | See Source »

...henchman of King's spoke recently at a rally composed largely of more militant Negroes. When he had finished, one of the audience strode to the podium and shook a fist in his face. "You Tom. All you want to do is make Mississippi like North Carolina!" "What the Hell do you mean--"the speaker shouted back. And then he stopped. He knew the man was right. That's exactly what he wanted...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Martin Luther King | 1/13/1965 | See Source »

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