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...Hoo-Ha Hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS: Letters, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...wake in a sweat and a hell of a fright When you're alone in the middle of the bed and you wake like someone hit you on the head You've had a cream of a nightmare dream and you've got the hoo-ha's coming to you . . . And perhaps you're alive And perhaps you're dead Hoo ha ha Hoo ha ha Hoo Hoo Hoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hour of the Hoo-Ha's | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...French mock hero of Five A.M. has a bad case of the hoo-ha's. His creator, Jean Dutourd. 36, is an accomplished satirical duelist (A Dog's Head, The Best Butter) who likes nothing better than to blood his pen on the foibles and pomposities of the French middleclass. He subscribes to the Andre Malraux dictum that France is "saturated with lies," and attacks those lies with what the French call "intellectual rigor." In Five A.M. this verges on intellectual rigor mortis, for Author Dutourd finds and leaves his novel's pathetic protagonist more dead than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hour of the Hoo-Ha's | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...degrading life to the level of a futile, nihilistic charade. Author Dutourd writes as dry ice feels, but his chilling message is only half true. A man's lifetime is invariably more than the sum of what he thinks and Feels in the small, black hour of the hoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hour of the Hoo-Ha's | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...Jean Harlow all over again!" He signed her for $125 a week. He slapped a new label on her (Monroe was the maiden name of Norma Jeane's mother, and Marilyn began with an M too), and put her to work on her first part, in Scudda Hoo, Scudda Hay. Marilyn's part: "Hello." It was cut from the finished film. Nevertheless, Marilyn began to acquire some of a celebrity's mannerisms. She roared through the studio gate in her battered jalopy as though it were a Hispano-Suiza, and she was seldom less than an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Aristophanes & Back | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

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