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Ages of Man. For one week only, starting April 14, John Gielgud will revive his masterly solo evening of readings from Shakespeare. Gielgud's unfailing intelligence and matchless vocal delivery make this a memorable theatrical event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 12, 1963 | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...year long the favelas are the city's blight; cops venture through some of them in cautious pairs by day, clear out altogether at night. But one night a year-the second night of pre-Lenten Carnival-the poverty-ridden, hungry world of shacks brings Rio a matchless show of gaudy costumes, music, dancing and gaiety unrestrained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Night of Glory | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

Marcel Marceau is an exciting architect of empty space, an eloquent poet of silence. This matchless mime shares with the early Charlie Chaplin the knowledge that no matter how funny the pratfall, the heart is where the hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 25, 1963 | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

There have been times when the fans wished that they had gone home after the parade. But not this year. Matched in the Rose Bowl were the nation's two top teams, Southern California and Wisconsin, and in 3½ hours of matchless play, they restored to college football all the grace and aggressiveness, the fun and glory that it had presumably lost to the pros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Roses All Around | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...captured Mauser, describes himself as "tough as a sjambok." (Most Buchan readers know what a sjambok is.) Hannay's American crony, John S. Blenkiron, drinks nothing but boiled milk (to placate his seething "duodenum"), bursts out with John Brown's Body when things look darkest, but is matchless at diagnosing the nefarious geopolitical logic behind any dirty work at the crossroads of the world. Grizzled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Evallonia Revisited | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

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