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...right combination of sweet, gentle good looks and crooning pop ballad style to suggest that Magdalene is really two Marys rolled into one. As Judas, Ben Vereen, 24, has one of the more physically demanding roles in the history of Broadway. Not only must he sing at great length???in a style that suggests Sammy Davis Jr. imitating Chuck Berry?but, in the torment of guilt, he hops and dances around like a man in the grip of epilepsy or leeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Gold Rush to Golgotha | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

...oversee the building of a great paper-pulp factory at Makarikha on the river Sot. Lost, they put up over night at the secret hermitage of Meleti, full of weird monks full of weird ideas. Hostile to Soviet innovations, they expound their general attitude at endless fantastic conversational length???"our Lord has not only chastized this earth with fools, he has afflicted it also with the wise." Wiseman Uvadiev is not to be deterred: he crosses the river, begins to oversee the stupendous work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stink or Swim | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...instant the Prince sprawled at full length???unhorsed by Fate. Then he rushed to summon aid for "Oh, Dear," whose instantaneous death seemed at first incredible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Again, Wales | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

...some 16,000 feet kept time to some 16,000 gesticulating arms waved by their cheering owners. Minutes passed before the distinguished speaker could speak. The ovation was such that the walls of the amphitheatre and the crowded boughs of nearby trees were endangered. At length???silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE (British Mandate): In the Promised Land | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

Foreword had gone about that the Democratic platform would be much shorter than the Republican. Instead it turned out to be of about equal length???perhaps a little longer. Whereas the Republicans took 24 hours to prepare their platform?although much of it was practically prepared in advance ?the Democrats spent four days on their platform, largely because of differences over the League and Klan planks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Platform | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

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