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...boozy sublimation after the death of her jet-propelled offspring (Muriel Berkson), Jean Stapleton, a triumphantly fun-loving barmaid, and Martita Reid, a Mexican dowager of sufficient force to faze even indomitable Actress Anderson. Director José Quintero has caught some memorable vignettes: a beach picnic, as airily languid as the colored soap bubbles blown by a Mexican girl, and a muddled wedding party, alive with tears and frayed tempers. Oliver Smith's scenery and the music composed by the playwright's husband, Paul Bowles, are nicely in key with the disturbing childhood memories that are the play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...himself in poetry, but his mother-whom he habitually described to friends as "that hateful paranoid"-would have none of it. After he graduated from New York University as a chemistry major last June, she plagued him to get a job "like other boys." Instead, Harlow-a tall, thin, languid youth with cropped red hair and heavy hornrimmed glasses-lounged about the family's Bronx apartment, owlishly reading verse. Eying him, his mother bawled the word: "Fairy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Champagne & Cyanide | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...wanted the Bermuda meeting. When it bogged down, he saved the situation-and went on to achieve far more than had been expected from the Bermuda Conference. Before and during the Bermuda talks, debate on the business of international security had been conducted in confused terms and at a languid tempo which showed Eisenhower that the implications of The Atom were not clearly understood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: A New Language | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...uproar to confer with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over the problem of U.S. policy toward Israel-a matter with some bearing on New York City's Jewish vote. The New York Daily News poll, hastily rejiggered to compensate for Impy's absence from the languid battle, showed Wagner ahead, 2 t01, nine days before election. But if the whole campaign had been conceived to drive the voters away from the polls, it could hardly have succeeded-or so it seemed at week's end-more brilliantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Languid Battle | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

John Romer Boreland Campbell, 34, Lord Glenorchy and heir to the 9th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, might easily have won fame & fortune as the hero of a P. G. Wodehouse novel. He is tall, languid, perennially short of cash and preoccupied with strange solutions for his problem. Lord Glenorchy has tried his luck as barman, bagpiper and laborer to supplement the $28-a-month pension he draws as a wounded veteran of the famed Black Watch Regiment. No luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Penniless Peer | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

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