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...begin. Then he makes his decision. He puts all three big horns in his mouth at once, and blows like a whale. What spouts forth sometimes sounds like a bagpipers' band skirling The Campbells Are Coming. But most often the sounds belong uniquely to their maker, Roland Kirk, who meshes a thrumming beat, a fer tile imagination and an impish humor to achieve an exciting union of the pa gan and the modern spirit - as if Pan were suddenly found piping merrily in a rush-hour subway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: Finding the Lost Chord | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...other hand, the loss of some of the old laws might be said, from a dour point of view, to contribute to modern decadence. Among them: repeal of a prohibition (1579) against "gamyng and playing, passing to tavernis and ail-houses and wilfull remaning fra [away from] the paroche kirk in tyme of ser-mone or prayers on Sonday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Neuer on Sonday | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...List of Adrian Messenger. Director John Huston seems as confused about the plot of this gimmicked potboiler as audiences will be. But the stars-George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, Kirk Douglas-are fun to watch. So are Bit-Players Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster and Robert Mitchum, in extravagant disguises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 21, 1963 | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

Sunday Night Movie (ABC, 8-10 p.m.). Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Sir Laurence Olivier star in G. B. Shaw's Devil's Disciple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jun. 14, 1963 | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...room at London Airport. But instead of washing his face, he takes it off. He squeegees out his contact eyeball covers, eases out his teeth, removes his grey wig, strips off his forehead and nose like so much tired bubble gum. And quicker than the audience can gasp "Kirk Douglas!", Kirk Douglas starts redisguising himself as a dapper diplomat. From here on, The List of Adrian Messenger becomes less a suspense movie than a guessing game: Who, among the assorted gypsies, crippled pensioners, organ grinders and ban-thefox-hunt ladies, are really Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra and Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mummery Flummery | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

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