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Goldstein. From Lake Michigan's murkiest depths, a scruffy, bearded old tramp (Lou Gilbert) wades ashore wearing dirty long underwear. He pushes an obese violinist through the streets of Chicago in a wheelchair. He is pursued through the phallic phantasmagoria of a sausage factory by a uniformed guard until a junk sculptor (Thomas Erhart) darts to his rescue. The sculptor defeats the guard, who is ground into lunch meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Way-Out in Chicago | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...human submariner, the built-in sonar system of the porpoise is an object of particular envy. How does a series of clicks and squeaks enable the graceful swimmer to "see" so well through the murkiest water? Scientists from the Lockheed-California Co. are still searching for the answer. But their research is already pointing toward an extra, nonaquatic dividend-a practical aid for blind people walking on land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Acoustics: Seeing with Sound | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

...deep psychological and intellectual waters. The characters rarely do more than waggle their toes in these depths, but the feeling is conveyed that they are all excellent swimmers. In The Unicorn, her seventh novel, the author unwisely grows impatient with toe dipping. She pitches her characters into the murkiest of the soul's dark waters, and leaps in after them. But the water proves to be not deep but merely cloudy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deep Mist & Shallow Water | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

...chased) all over Europe before he even digs up this sore-thumb fact, while the blackmail victims-quislings who never quisled because Hitler never got around to invading their countries-earnestly try to bump Mitchum off their vile, traitorous scent. In all, Foreign Intrigue rates as the murkiest black-and-white color film of the year, lacking only a chase through sewers to lend it a more poignant aroma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 13, 1956 | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...Murkiest problem is how the infection affects the heart, and in what form. Working on rabbits, Dr. Schwentker is now testing a theory that the antibodies which form in the blood to fight the infection also attack the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Crippled Hearts | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

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