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While Cleavon Little brings a rip-roaring fervor to Purlie's evangelistic soliloquies, the cute cutup who steals the show, the evening and the audience's heart is the back-country girl (Melba Moore) who falls in love with Purlie. Melba Moore is a delightfully innocent minx, a girl who seems to have swallowed joy for breakfast. When she sings, the sun shines in, and when she dances, her feet play truant from the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Make Way for Melba Moore | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

George Dandin, is the decorous tale of a wealthy farmer who is all but cuckolded and constantly humiliated by his upper-class minx of a wife. The only novelty provided in its performance is an acting style that is resolutely anti-psychological. Each role is lustrously burnished; none is probed. No transistorized translation is offered with these plays, and to those who lack French, the language may sound like an LP record played at 78 r.p.m...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: The Three Musketeers & George Dcmdin | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

Beckett's men worked 80-to 90-hour weeks, applying Ford's "triangulation" approach to every aspect of the project. Similar components from a Ford car (Anglia) and two competitors (Volkswagen and Minx) were compared to determine the best possible combination. Says Beckett: "We always analyze the best in competitive products right down to the spot welds-you can always learn something from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Cortina Takes the Crown | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

Born. To Romy Schneider, 28, Austria's slinky movie minx, and Harry Haubenstock, 45, German theater director she married last July: their first child, a son; in West Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 9, 1966 | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...life is a role that man cannot rehearse or reverse. Sir Michael Redgrave as Solness thunders, hisses and froths like a wave crashing on a steep beach. Celia Johnson, as his wife, is as bleakly crisp as burnt bacon. However, Maggie Smith as Hilde is too much the calculating minx, seemingly unaware that the sliest seductive weapon of the young is youth...

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

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