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...Felix's life, even appropriates one of his mistresses. He composes critical jargon so dense that he himself cannot penetrate it ("What the hell do I mean by that?"), writes atrocious music, and finally wheedles Felix into playing it. Once compromised, the cellist collapses, corporeally and artistically kaput...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Northern Indictment | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...looking through the other end of the telescope. He will be charged with building a sound U.S. economy to assure the basis of free world strength. "He knows," said a friend last week, "that if you are successful everywhere else and your financial structure is gone, you're kaput...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: SIX FOR THE KENNEDY CABINET | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

HYDROGEN BOMB-Das Eargeschplitten Laudenboomer mit ein grosse Holengraund und Alles kaput...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ein Kleines Jokenskribbling | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

Prowska began weeping at her work. Her only reply to Mrs. Simon's anxious questions in sign-language was: "Jack kaput, Prowska kaput" and the quick gesture of a finger drawn across her throat. From time to time Prowska's hands became paralyzed. Said the doctor: "There is nothing physically wrong with her, but she is scared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Rhymes with Spy | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...George Larrimore, a Gushing woman who speaks Ukrainian, came often to reassure Prowska and Jackin. Still Prowska drew a slender forefinger across her throat. "Mother, brothers, sisters, father kaput," she would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Rhymes with Spy | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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