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...pictures. The still ones, that is; nothing can quite match the films. Zimmerman shows just how much Groucho could inscribe on the head of a pun: "This is indeed a gala day. That's plenty. I don't think I could handle more than a gal a day." He retells the best of the anecdotes from the days when the boys were as funny off-screen as on. Best of all, the book resists the temptation to analyze, observing E. B. White's dictum: "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Restoration Comedy | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...lace the fields around Kallia, as sprinklers shoot jets of fresh water high in the air. Massey-Ferguson cultivators dig furrows, and Kallia's first crop of yellow corn is sprouting. One acre has been set aside for a hydroponic plot. Nutrients and chemicals from a 60,000-gal-lon fiber-glass reservoir wash long rows of coal-black tuff, a cinderlike debris of volcanic lava brought from the Golan Heights. In the tuff are melon and tomato seeds that may, thanks to the hydroponic forced feeding, yield up to ten times a normal crop. All told, the Israeli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: ISRAEL SETTLING IN TO STAY | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...created man, so Shakespeare created Hamlet. He is an infinite mar vel. He is more than a part: he is an element, a realm, a cosmos. He is man in extremis, fencing desperately and gal lantly on the rim of an abyss called fate. To watch him is to be chilled and electrified by the destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Member of the Company | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

JIMMY SHINE is like a book in which the text has been thrown away and the footnotes published. Playwright Murray Schis-gal is fortunate to have Dustin Hoffman's ingratiating stage personality working for him as the luckless born loser, stumbling through episodes from his past, present and fantasy lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 3, 1969 | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...headlines that they claimed were double entendres. I remember one particular headline "Two in Bed, Tangle Lasses." If you read it fast it sounded peculiar. Another one was "Big Balls Win Gal Prize." Of course, it was nothing more than a girl attending a drinking party, and wound up in court, she won the prize for large highballs, though she never collected it. You couldn't put down large highballs, you didn't have room enough, you only had a certain amount of type, you only had 21 units that you could use, and you had to write the whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fred Shibley--Tumbler and Sandblaster--Started a Newspaper and Was Bankrupted By Catholic Churches and Urban Renewal | 11/20/1968 | See Source »

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