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Finally, with a little fist-in-the-face encouragement from brother Dominic (Herschel Bernardi, I must interject, looks and sounds about as Italian as Menasha Skulnick), Steve proposes. To everyone's amazement except ours, Natalie rejects him. A wedding without love would be intolerable. Footloose Steve, feeling his duty discharged, ducks out the back door leaving Natalie's relatives in anguished pandemonium. You never heard so many Mama Mias...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Love With the Proper Stranger | 4/7/1964 | See Source »

...wherever his creature is bound, Beckett is clearly bent on re-creating the spiritual history of man. The crawler encounters another crawler called Pim and begins to "educate" him. "first lesson ... I dig my nails into his armpit right hand right pit he cries I withdraw then thump with fist on skull his face sinks in the mud his cries cease end of first lesson." Pim learns not to cry but to sing when he is jabbed in the armpit. Why? Because, his tormentor reasons, he must say to himself, "this man is no fool, what is required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye to Godot | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...short, Cassius will be hit and every time he is hit, whether by Sonny's battering left jabs, by a pounding free fist in a clinch, or by the hook, Cassius will get a little slower and a little weaker. If Sonny does not KO Cassius in the third or fourth according to schedule, Sonny will win the war by attrition...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: Big Bear Will Flatten Clay Tonight; Rabbit Hunt Should End in Fourth | 2/25/1964 | See Source »

...Portugal, Amália Rodrigues is considered the world's greatest singer. When she sings on television, theaters empty; there are fist fights in the cafés, and worried queues leading to the squares that have public television sets. At 43, she is everything to Lisbon that Edith Piaf was to Paris, and because she is a singer of fados, she is also considered a liberator, a philosopher, an antagonist, a revolutionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: You Ain't Been Blue | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...build up their biceps when their secretaries aren't looking simply by sitting up straight, sliding their open palms against the underside of their desks, and pushing up for six seconds. They can reripple their arm, chest and shoulder muscles by giving six-second pushes of one fist into the other hand. Their wives can firm up their thighs by standing with feet spraddled widely and trying to pull their thighs toward each other with maximum tension for six seconds, three times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: Without Moving a Muscle | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

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