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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...malign Malan because he dislikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Don't Pan Dan | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Malan is a wonderful man-don't malign Malan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Don't Pan Dan | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...Genn to shine as Petronius, the Roman satirist, whose dry wit enables him to needle Nero even while flattering him. As Nero, Britain's Actor-Playwright-Director Peter Ustinov is allowed to hog too much screen time, but he does some expert hamming to create the deliciously malign figure of a spoiled, sensual madman. Finlay (Great Expectations) Currie plays St. Peter with eloquent dignity, though his long speeches are marred by the camera's digressions to tasteless religious tableaux, e.g., The Last Supper. In the role of the lascivious Empress Poppaea, Patricia Laffan has nothing much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 19, 1951 | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...Sauk Centre, Minn, did not find this suggestion appropriate. Even if they had, few of the Old Gang were left to remember the good old days when Sinclair Lewis was considered an unholy terror, the Scourge of Main Street, and hell's own foreign correspondent sent up to malign God's country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: SINCLAIR LEWIS: 1885-1951 | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...production is a tangle of acting styles-an Edmund sinuous as an Oriental dancer, a Goneril straight out of melodrama; perhaps only Martin Gabel's blunt, forthright Kent keeps its outline. Round the play's great lonely poetic peaks roar the cold winds of human evil and malign fate, the bleak message that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Four of a Kind | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

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