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...trying to keep the sex in balance with the substance, the taste with the tasty; and Buddha himself -played by 23-year-old Rising Son Kojiro Hongo-will only appear in the flesh during the first segment of the film. After that, he becomes a ray of light, a murmur of thunder. The script even avoids mentioning the birth of the Enlightened One's child, but otherwise spares nothing: the cartoon bevies of sensual maidens who surround the young prince, the rape of his wife by his malevolent cousin Devadatta, the visions of seminude sorceresses who tempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: The Zen Commandments | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...murmur in brokenhearted silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: One Man's Cup of Coffee | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...bought a year before. He had just got around to taking it out of the box in which it was delivered. "Now look at it," he fumed. "It's wrinkled." Where most department stores might have offered a free pressing, Hudson's complaint department without a murmur refunded the full purchase price of the suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: No Embarrassed Customers | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

...sounds that reverberated through Moscow's Teatr Estrady last week seemed strangely out of place in the drab, disciplined Soviet capital: the salivating slur of a trombone, the mellow wail of a muted trumpet, the throaty murmur of a saxophone and the staccato thunder of drums. U.S. tourists even thought they could identify the nearly indistinguishable melody: Lullaby of Birdland. They were right. At picnics and Komsomol dances, in cabarets and conservatories, the Soviet Union is swinging to the sound of jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Red Hot | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...other singer. He's lucky to be in this with me, dear. That jerk-he can't sing because he hasn't got any vocal technique, that's why!" After such an out burst she is likely to shrug her shoulders, smile and murmur, "I don't know why I get so excited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Voice Like a Banner Flying: Leontyne Price | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

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