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...plot till within minutes of the end, that "the shocking conclusion of Planet of the Apes will not be revealed in any synopsis," the following synopsis will find it necessary to reveal the shocking conclusion: Three American astronauts zip through space and crashland on a planet where men are mute animals and apes are civilized. The one survivor (Charlton Heston), makes his own intelligence known to a female sociologist and her fiance (Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowell), who provoke a veritable Scopes trial in reverse, at the end of which Dr. Zaius (Maurice Evans) resolves to castrate Heston and reduce...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Planet of the Apes | 4/11/1968 | See Source »

...split the party, admitted that he must now campaign hard in Oregon. Curiously silent on the issue, however, was Michigan's erstwhile presidential candidate, George Romney, who surprisingly declined to endorse Rockefeller after his own withdrawal. Last week at a Lansing, Mich., press conference, he again stood mute. Would George back Nelson if he were to announce formally? "No," said Romney. If he is discouraged by the professionals' skepticism, Rockefeller could at least take comfort from the latest Harris Poll comparing him with Nixon in a race against Johnson and Alabama's George Wallace. In a Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Nixon's New Image, Rocky's New Clothes | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...photograph with the Kennedy family. Shortly after, he came through Mrs. Lincoln's office again and spied the child drawing pictures by her desk. As she tells it, L.B.J.'s face lit up, and he said: "Do you know who I am, Caroline?" The little girl stood mute. "I'm your Uncle Lyndon. I want you to call me 'Uncle Lyndon' whenever you see me." When he left, Caroline asked: "Is he really my uncle?" Told that if he were, he would have to be either her father's or her mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Memories of Uncle Lyndon | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...exemplify lust. Her makeup varies from Greek statuesque to a head-to-toe spray job of aluminum paint. When she welcomes Burton to an eternity of damnation, her eyeballs and teeth are dripping pink in what seems to be a hellish combination of conjunctivitis and trench mouth. Mercifully mute throughout, she merely moves in and out of camera range, breasting the waves of candle smoke, dry-ice vapor and vulgarity that swirl through the sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Doctor Faustus | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...been zooming along at close to the speed of light, and so-in accordance with Einstein's Time-Dilation Theory-they have scarcely aged, save for some grey in their beards. At first, all they find is sand, but soon they stumble across a primitive tribe of mute cave people. "If this is the best they've got, we'll be running this planet in three months," smirks the skipper, played by Charlton Heston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Planet of the Apes | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

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