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...last thing iguana do is make anemone by speaking with too much condor or sound as if I'm yakking or harpying about trivia, but still llama bit put out at your aukward article about the Ghana fitchewation. Every minotaur language seems to be losing whatever lynx remain with the deer old English we once gnu and loved. It used to comfort ocelot to pick up TIME and read straight-forward copy without being exposed to the whims of devilfish writers. And, alas, even TIME is now tapiring off in a manner that has us aphid linguiphiles so worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 22, 1966 | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

Harper goes hunting instead, and his first stop is at an Alhambra-sized mansion ruled from a wheelchair by Lauren Bacall, the wife or widow of a kidnaped millionaire. Right at home here, lynx-eyed Lauren lets her voice burn like a laser into Scenarist William Goldman's polished-steel dialogue. "I only want to outlive him; I want to see him in his grave," she says. "People in love will say anything," answers Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Wave Manhunt | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

Going Down. The Kremlin's tool was Ana Pauker, a lynx-eyed, sphinx-bodied female Foreign Minister who ranked as high in the Kremlin's bevy of Red Amazons as Spain's Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria"). Ana quickly purged the Rumanian party of "nationalists"-down to and including three elevator operators in the Foreign Ministry. "National Communists" fared poorly throughout Eastern Europe in the late 1940s: Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Hungary's János Kádar went to prison on Stalin's orders; others, such as Czech General Secretary Rudolph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: The Third Communism | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...everyone knows that the tousled blonde with the lynx eyes who emerged slowly and nearly nude from the pasteboard cake at the bachelor party in How to Murder Your Wife is that 27-year-old Italian import, Virna Lisi. Her co-star Jack Lemmon has said: "She's a star. She has it, a real regality"; critics have agreed, and the public is purring contentedly. About the only people not in on the secret are her fellow Romans, who are only now getting to see the film in Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: La Lisi | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

Divorced. By Eartha Kitt, 36, lynx-like Negro songstress famed for a near-purrfect version of Monotonous: William McDonald, 34, white Los Angeles real estate man; on grounds of cruelty; after nearly four years of marriage, one daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 3, 1964 | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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