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...baldheaded, spade-bearded little Lothario killed ten women is not shown, but his method of disposing of their remains is made clear: in the kitchen is a long black table, a meat grinder, and a small black stove. One victim sees the coal scuttles for her own cremation, and noxious black smoke puffing from Landru's chimney*hints at similar fates for others. Each smoke signal cues a clip from a World War I newsreel showing doughboys going over the top to their death. Chabrol thus seems to justify his Landru (to whom he and Sagan are lavishly sympathetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is Killing Women Bad? | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...point) toward the first eight-mile mark on the 24-mile triangular course, he could manage only a four-length lead. Eleven times in the space of five minutes Sturrock challenged with short tacks, hoping to gain a few precious seconds, his crewmen working like demons at the coffee-grinder winches. Each time, in the brutal test of skill and muscle, Mosbacher covered, instantly at first, and then more slowly as his crew began to tire. "We were doing him in," crowed an Aussie crewman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Races to Remember | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...Thanks for the mention [July 20]. Like St. Sebastian, I've been waiting for the worst. I liked the people with whom I was in contact. It was not the fault of one that the meat goes through the grinder to come out Timese, which is a mixture of mayhem and literary Metrecal (cuts you down to size)-nor of the other that the camera does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 3, 1962 | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...gone into her design." Whatever U.S. boat defends against Gretel off Newport, R.I., this September will have to earn the right. Columbia, skippered by Corny's son "Glit," has been in drydock all winter getting a shorter, sharper keel, a new mast, new sails, and new "coffee grinder" winches. Says the senior Shields: "People ask, 'Why change a boat that is obviously very fast?' Well, we figure we need every advantage we can get to lick our competition." Chandler Hovey's Easterner, trounced in 14 straight races in 1958, has undergone major surgery. Her mast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Time for the Twelves | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

Hurdy-gurdy organ grinder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Alice in Audioland | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

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