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...attention to himself than to those he introduces. Lincoln Center's New York Film Festival, which opened last week, has always been more seemly than its European counterparts, because it gives no awards; thus there are never any egos jockeying backstage for the coveted Silver Palm or Golden Frog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festival Attraction, Side-Show Action | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

Surveyor's dramatic recovery overshadowed another space venture involving 1,000 vinegar gnats, 1,000 flour beetles, 560 wasps, 120 frog eggs, 875 amoebae, 13,000 bacteria cells, 78 wheat seedlings, nine pepper plants, 10 million spores of orange bread mold and 64 blue spiderwort. All this was packed aboard a space ark called Biosatellite 2 and launched into earth orbit from Cape Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ark in Orbit | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...Young Strangers, a memoir of his boyhood. Always, however, his first love was verse and song. As a preface to 1928's Good Morning, America, Sandburg listed 38 tentative definitions of poetry. Among them: "Poetry is a sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poetry: American Troubadour | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

...crew of galactic pirates makes the book sound entertaining-a sort of avant-garde James Bond adventure. It is nothing of the kind. The Ticket That Exploded, revised since it was first published in France five years ago, is a nightmare of pornography, disjointed prose,* spaceships powered by copulation, frog people, hangings, and "Sex Skins," which devour people in what apparently is the ultimate ecstasy of death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Jul. 28, 1967 | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

...four men who played most of the other parts, Belford Lawson, Michael Lavelle, Joshua Rubins, and Michael Ellmann, seemed almost protean in their ability to shift from one part to another. Ellman's warty bliggens, an egomaniacal frog with a Texas accent, Lawson's fiendish tarantula, Lavelle's tom, and Rubins' irate bill Shakespeare were all ironic masterpieces, classics of the genre. Barbara Lanckton and Margaret Stanback filled the occasional women', parts competently, but only Miss Lanckton's spider...

Author: By Stephen Hart, AT KIRKLAND HOUSE THROUGH WEDNESDAY | Title: archy and mehitabel | 6/12/1967 | See Source »

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