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...Bouguereau, such faultless yet lifeless art brought honors, fame and money. At 25, he won the coveted Grand Prix de Rome, and his idyllic ceilings painted for rich Paris patrons won him membership in the Institut de France. To the end, when he was producing such works as his Les Oréades, Bouguereau found big buyers, many of them Americans. In 1900, a buyer in New York was willing to pay $7,400 for a work incredibly called Innocence. Historians credit his work as a major influence on Western saloon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: From Salon to Saloon | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

...feel as well as act. But the sinister mastermind Largo (Adolfo Celi), his lovely but treacherous "niece" (Claudine Auger), and the slowwited CIA man Leiter (a very inadequate Rick Van Nutter) are never developed beyond the comic-book level, and Bond himself (Sean Connery again) is slick and lifeless, as always...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: Thunderball | 1/4/1966 | See Source »

Sean O'Casey, who say Hall's production of Red Roses for Me, commented, "I have had so many lifeless productions of my work that I never thought to see them survive; I had not reckoned with a young director named Adrian Hall...

Author: By Michael Lucheme, | Title: Trinity Square Theater Repertory Acting in R.I. | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...Peru's Fernando Belaunde Terry, Venezuela's Raul Leoni and Chile's Eduardo Frei-while Castro's once-great mass appeal has faded. Gone is the assurance of being the greatest Cuban national hero since Liberator Jose Marti; Cuba today is populated by a sullen, lifeless people who dream their own dreams-of fleeing to somewhere else, as they say, "on the other side." Gone even is the ebullient, wildly spinning personality of Fidel Castro himself, replaced by a brooding, gloomy figure, rarely seen, rarely heard, struggling like any other Communist subchieftain to run a country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: The Petrified Forest | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...would probably still have fewer words in it than there have been people outside the dining hall in the Union these days, a situation the Summer School administration managed to alleviate last year by serving meals both in the Union and in Quincy House, but now Quincy sits abandoned, lifeless in the midst of the 350 girls filling it, all of whom have to eat at the Union along with the other 4350 people in the Summer School, who, if they all ate there, would have to be served at the rate of 8 1/2 people a second in order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peas and Queues | 7/12/1965 | See Source »

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