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The film is flawed by a scenario that often strives to make raciness respectable. Defoe's Moll was a hardheaded tart who used her ill-gotten lovers for gain. Novak's Moll uses her ill-gotten gains for her lover, and too soon comes to too good an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Easy Was a Lady | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

Linking devaluation to the IMF debacle was a baldly political attempt to saddle Washington with the blame for years of fiscal mismanagement in Argentina. Moreover, though Illia's government announced bravely that it would now deal independently with the nation's creditors in Europe, the U.S. and Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Going It Alone | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

In the 3,100-mile East African Safari, it helps if a driver knows his zoology. Cows confronted by cars act plain stupid: they have to be bumpered off the road. Sheep and goats scatter at the first toot. Elephants are cops, happily waving on traffic with their trunks. Rhinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Crash Course in Zoology | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

Her life's work, in the U.S. and elsewhere, became one long pursuit of profitable ways in which to make women more attractive - or to make them think they were. Starting in an era when cosmetics were not quite respectable, she helped win millions of women over to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetics: The Beauty Merchant | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

As a hero, Lancaster slides down embankments, scales walls and leaps on and off cannonballing locomotives, spurning all stunt-man fakery. But not for a moment does he seem to be a French patriot named Labiche, and Train slows to a crawl when he abruptly turns culture-conscious, exhorting his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lococommotion | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

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