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...Like Flint is the further adventures of a far-out secret agent who makes James Bond look like the stately Holmes of England. In Our Man Flint (TIME, Feb. 4, 1966), James Coburn's screwball skills put some spin into a sluggish scenario. But even he cannot defuse this bomb of a sequel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gals' Roguery | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...G.O.P.'s most spectacular Midwest gains came in the House races and were, in large part, the result of having exceptionally attractive young candidates. In Michigan, Republican challengers ousted all five of the Democratic Congressmen who were newly elected in 1964. Biggest upset occurred in the Seventh District (Flint and environs), where Republican Donald W. Riegle Jr., 28, literally quit school?he was working on a business doctorate at Harvard?to take on First-Termer John Mackie, 46, Democratic wheelhorse and longtime state highway commissioner. Riegle, who tirelessly trod city streets and crashed Democratic rallies, buried Mackie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Midwest: Heartland Recaptured | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...stretch 150 miles long, 220 miles wide, and include 37 counties: 25 in Michigan, nine in Ohio and three in Canada. The area will have a population of 15 million centered in the Motor City but with secondary concentrations at Port Huron, 55 miles to the northeast, Toledo, Flint, Saginaw, Grand Rapids, Lansing and Ann Arbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Capital for the New Megalopolis | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...Liquidator. Overproduction is the No. 1 problem of the James Bondustry. In 1966, moviegoers have been offered no less than 22 examples of secret-agentertainment. The Liquidator, like Our Man Flint, attempts to make money on the formula by making fun of it. This time, unfortunately, the fun is less noticeable than the formula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Can You Break a Cheery Spy? | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...tricky TV-comedy ending, but doesn't fill it with any revels that require a viewer's complete attention. The movie's hero is a lickerish, hipsterish con artist named Kotch, played by James Coburn in a flaccid reprise of his role as Our Man Flint. In prison, Kotch cranks up a steal-a-million scheme, a testament to the faith of moviemakers that a tale so often told must be good for something-even if it is no longer good for laughs. After a cool blonde psychologist bounces him from a group therapy session behind bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Bank Bit | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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