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Snakes and Parrots. Burke called his stories "tales" and had no illusion about their realism. In his Limehouse, Fu Manchu stalks opium dens; every flower girl has a "lily-white bosom" and is generally no older than 14-Burke seemed to have a pre-Nabokov feeling for nymphets. There are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mephitic Glooms | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

Sir / You rats! You told how to do the magic tricks [July 22]. The fun in magic is to be stumped and just wonder how a trick is performed. It works because of "magic." When once you know the secret, the illusion is spoiled. You'll never be invited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 12, 1974 | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

The Janus Film Festival continues its week-long engagement at the Harvard Sq. Theater. The festival features two classic new wave films per day, and if there is any problem with the movies it's that they are all too good to be taken in such short order. You get...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 8/9/1974 | See Source »

Sat.: Jules and Jim, 2:15, 5:55, 9:35 and Grand Illusion, 4:05, 7:45

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIMETABLE | 8/9/1974 | See Source »

On the contrary the weight of the evidence suggests that during the past thirteen years African nationalists in Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique have waged a protracted armed struggle that has inflicted great damage to Portuguese military capability as much as it has weakened that country's economic vitality. My...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLONIAL REVOLUTIONS | 8/6/1974 | See Source »

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