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...married an artist-Anthony Devas-because artists were the only people she knew. But she had the good luck or good sense to pick a nonflamboyant type with solid talent who achieved a modest success as a portrait painter, with no impulse to live it up, sleep around or hurl defiance at the bourgeoisie who bought his pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bohemian Girl | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...sure, many aspiring young writers hurl such despairing challenges at themselves, brood majestically over the paradoxes of life and mistake old mysteries for freshly discovered insights:"The history of the world is a farce," announces Flaubert. "I believe that humanity has but one objective: to suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: C'Esf Moi | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...sparks of interaction that fly between proficient Actors Gossett and Bedelia camouflage the dearth of action in the play. Considering that the two hurl abuse at one another for minutes at a time, it is surprising that a playgoer ends the evening feeling that it has been spent with two decidedly likable people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Misery Hates Company | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...really agree on the identity of anyone else, it is difficult to discover who, if anyone, is dead, much less why. Readers who happen to be avid for the daytime retelling of last night's nightmare will find surfeit in La Maison; others are apt to hurl the book, if it is a book, at the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Is It a Book? Is It a Nightmare? | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...prepared. Australian intelligence reported that they had intercepted messages from Melbourne Communists advising sympathizers in Sydney on how to disrupt the President's visit. They tried hard enough, pelting the motorcade with toilet paper, black streamers and bomb-shaped balloons, screaming "Go home, fascist pigs!" and trying to hurl themselves in front of the slow-moving limousines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: On Top Down Under | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

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