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...anti-anti-hero who is restless, wealthy, athletic, loves poetry, and drives a white Porsche. With his help, the heroine invades the castle in search of an eccentric great-aunt and finds instead a dope-smuggling operation. The young lovers rout the criminals and head blissfully for the altar. Kismet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Jan. 5, 1968 | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...Kismet Kid. When they serve any public purpose at all, Governors' conferences occasionally allow presidential candidates to win adherents. This time there was no movement. Rhode Island's John Chafee warned fellow Republican moderates to "get hustling" for Romney. "Now," said Chafee, "is the time to speak up." If any new Romney fans did, their words were lost in the cha-cha beat. Lenore Romney pronounced Chafee "brilliant." The resolutions committee, meanwhile, was deliberating in a chamber aptly named the "children's playroom." The more controversial resolutions were either watered down or defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: In Unpath'd Waters | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...lines." Then Ronnie lapsed into supersincerity by saying that "the convention, the party and the people of the U.S. will make that decision. It is not relevant what someone's personal desires might be." Translation for first voters: "Can I help it if I'm the kismet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: In Unpath'd Waters | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...KISMET, (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). A special television adaptation of the Broadway musical starring Jose Ferrer, Barbara Eden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, George Chakiris, Hans Conreid and Cecil Kellaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 20, 1967 | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Nanette Fabray narrates "Theater of the Deaf," which takes a look at three leading directors (Arthur Penn, Joe Layton and Gene Lasko) working with deaf actors at the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Foundation in Waterford, Conn. Scenes from Kismet, Guys and Dolls, Hamlet, All the Way Home and South Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 31, 1967 | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

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