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Word: inspectors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young playwright of widely hailed promise, Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead) is tick-tocking away with deadly superficiality in his new play, The Real Inspector Hound. This is a double-edged spoof on mystery plays and drama critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: LONDON STAGE: FOSSILS AND FERMENT | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...critics become unintentionally involved in the action and are both shot to death. Stoppard is a ' word mimic and a born parodist. But parody is parasitic and needs a strong host body. With Hamlet as host, Stoppard worked wonders. Apart from a few antic moments, The Real Inspector Hound is a lazy blunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: LONDON STAGE: FOSSILS AND FERMENT | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...Shot in the Dark and The Pink Panther, Gallic gumshoe Jacques Clouseau was played by Peter Sellers with his overfamiliar banana-peel approach to comedy. In Inspector Clouseau, Arkin follows meticulously in his predecessor's flatfootsteps, but the result is only a parody of a parody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Inspector Clouseau and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

Fractured French. From Inspector Clouseau to Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a journey from comedy to tragedy, from fractured French to utter silence. As John Singer, a deaf-mute silverware engraver living in a small Dixie town, Arkin moves through a gallery of Southern gothic tragedy. A fellow mute (Chuck McCann) does violence to a store window, and is committed to a mental institution, where he dies. A Negro doctor who befriends Singer is racked with cancer, and has a hostile, hate-drugged daughter (Cicely Tyson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Inspector Clouseau and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

Water Use Inspector by the Arco Editorial Board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stop the Presses! | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

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