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...least is worth watching. In this one, however, the landscape is cluttered up with so much unlovely plot that it can hardly be seen. The heroine (Ginger Rogers) is a kept woman who has everything that money (Stanley Baker) can buy-from a villa on the Riviera to a Jaguar parked outside it. But all she really wants is love (Jacques Ber-gerac). Bergerac (Actress Rogers' real-life fourth husband) is an artsy-craftsy type who makes expressionistic pottery for a living. "Maybe you're a genius," sighs Ginger, and decides that she would rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...Yerby lives on the French Riviera with his tiny, light-skinned wife Flora and their four children. When he is not whipping out profitable prose in his villa garden in Cimiez, Nice. Author Yerby goes skin-diving in the Mediterranean, skiing in the Alps or whizzing off in his Jaguar XK 120 to attend sports-car races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE GOLDEN CORN: HE WRITES TO PLEASE | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Privilege & Presence. South Viet Nam, by contrast, which remains within the French Union, is demoralized and divided. Bao Dai, the porcine Chief of State, lives in France with his mistresses, his Ferrari and his Jaguar XK 120. Bao Dai's Premier in Saigon is Ngo Dinh Diem, 53, a high-minded patriot but an ineffective leader, who is more or less locked up inside his palace by Vietnamese generals who want to grab power for themselves. In many of the villages that the Viet Minh infiltrators do not control,* local sects and gangsters rule with private armies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Land of Compulsory Joy | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

...Rainmaker (by N. Richard Nash) produces a fair amount of good theatrical weather. Playwright Nash, author of the allegorical See the Jaguar, is still bewitched by symbolism but no longer groggy from it. This time he is so obvious that a retarded matinee audience can see the point. When he isn't being florid, in thought or language, he can be very good fun. The Rainmaker is about equal parts sticky romance and lively comedy, crumpled cornflowers and high-grade corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...contributed three cartoons, one of which is bad, and another which is worse. But on the third try, he comes up with probably the funniest cartoon in the issue, depicting the unrelentlessness of mechanical room-cleaning. The other cartoonist, G. N. Herbert, shows that he can draw a Jaguar...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: The Lampoon | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

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