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...horror. Her mimicry of Jean's war story is hilarious. Her mother Elizabeth, played by Diana Allen, is an equally fine variation on the French sex-killer archetype. Together, they crawl all over Wake like a pair of black widows. Jaimie Rosenthal, as Mme. Rene, skillfully portrays a more mellow arachnid, whose venomous charm has degenerated into mere tittering...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: The Chambers | 3/22/1965 | See Source »

...since the folks down South aren't exactly Yankee lovers, they didn't hear much of his renowned play-by-play. Now Mel Allen, 52, has a little something against those damyankees himself. They fired him. Well, maybe it's all for the best, because the Mellow tones will ring out over his native clay this season. He has signed on to broadcast the Atlanta end of radio and TV coverage for the National League's Milwaukee Braves, who have switched much of their programming to Atlanta prior to moving there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 19, 1965 | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...Vision. In adjacent quarters Poussin's Sabine women are abducted in the passionless postures of French neoclassic actors. Through another doorway the visitor is delivered into 18th century England, attended by four Gainsboroughs, three Reynolds portraits, a Romney, and a dozen other chamois-cheeked countenances that peer down, mellow within their lacework gilt frames, between ornate black marble period fireplaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: The Muses' Marble Acres | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...good imitation of James Bond, but don't ever equate Vaughn with Connery. They are as different as-well, to use a Bond-style analogy, 1951 and 1957 vintage Burgundies. They might have come from the same vine, but gentlemen, one is so much more mellow, mature and smoo-ooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 12, 1965 | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

Some purists felt the timbre of the auditorium to be more on the brilliant or hi-fi side, in contrast to the mellow tones of Europe's more ancient structures. But at intermission time, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky turned to Jack Benny, sitting just beside him, and said, "Aren't the acoustics wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Brightness in the Air | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

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