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Though a plot as old as The Hill's can well be a handicap, U.S. Director Sidney Lumet (The Pawnbroker) nails the action of this spiky British drama into so taut a frame that an audience can feel every jab in the belly, taste every mouthful of dust. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ordeal in the Desert | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

The first came with the completion of her first novel, The Voyage Out, about a love-struck girl who dies of an irrelevant fever. She had "an almost pathological hypersensitivity to criticism, so that she suffered an ever increasingly agonizing nervous apprehension as she got nearer to the end of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unafraid of Virginia Woolf | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

Reading the fall Advocate at a single sitting is something like swallowing an unplucked chicken. You keep telling yourself how good the meat is, but all the while you are spitting out the feathers. Just as a poem or story almost catches you up, the author shoves you a mouthful...

Author: By Jacos R. Brackman, | Title: The Advocate | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

The kid with a mouthful of hardware to align his teeth and make his jaws close neatly together has become a familiar sight during the past 30 years. Now so many adults are going in for tooth straightening that the American Association of Orthodontists estimated last week that about one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychiatry: A Better Bite for Father | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

This was quite a mouthful when you consider that Dartmouth had just suffered a 15-49 near shutout at the hands of Brown last weekend. The Indians have also been beaten by Middlebury, Manhattan, and Penn, and finished second to Yale in a triangular meet with the Elis and Columbia...

Author: By Richard P. Sorensen, | Title: Harvard's Harriers Rated Favorites Over Weak Dartmouth Squad Today | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

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