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...invites one to read it as a narrative of emotion. The camera's rendering is exceedingly spare, fastidious in its detachment. Its formal rigor-down to the last rhyme between the wet locks and their paler shadow on the water's wrinkled skin-is intimidating. This Midwestern naiad, one realizes, is Callahan's Mona Lisa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Exactly What Is a Photograph? | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

Miles portrays Lady Caroline like a seasick naiad. She is married to that steadfast politician William Lamb (Jon Finch), who is later to become Lord Melbourne, no thanks to her. Caroline conducts a mad love affair with Lord Byron (Richard Chamberlain), submitting eagerly to such ignominious charades as playing Nubian slave to his surly prince. She thereby offers herself as a willing victim to the Romantic Agony, not to mention the subsequent shame, strife and scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rack of Lamb | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

Impressive as they were, those performances were nothing compared with the one turned in by Debbie Meyer, a tiny, blonde, 14-year-old naiad from Sacramento, Calif. Daughter of a plant manager, Debbie startled experts last month when she broke two world records (for the 800-meter and 1,500-meter freestyle) in one race at Santa Clara, Calif. At Winnipeg last week, Debbie was matched in the women's 400-meter freestyle against the reigning world record holder, Pamela Kruse, 17, of Pompano Beach, Fla. She obviously has no respect for her elders. Leaving the aging Pamela struggling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International Games: Naiad's Triumph | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

...Naked Naiads. The biggest, noisiest and naughtiest contender in the new spystakes is The Silencers, with Crooner Dean Martin playing Matt Helm, a secret agent for ICE (Intelligence Counter Espionage). Its plot pits Helm against the mastermind of one of those atomic conspiracies, headquartered in what appears to be a sunken carrier under the desert near Alamogordo. But the real contest is between nudity and gadgetry. The striptease fun, with Cyd Charisse as team captain, begins during the opening credits, then gets right down to business in Martin's circular bed, which turns, travels, tilts, finally plunges him naked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Spies Who Came into the Fold | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...fine-limbed young woman rising from the foam on TIME'S cover is neither a naiad nor the creation of a fashion editor's imaginative whim. She is Mrs. William J. Anderson III, named Michael because she is the third of three daughters in a family that had been hoping for a boy. She is swimming not at Saint Tropez but at Sea Island, Ga.; she comes not from such routinely celebrated places as Manhattan, Boston, or Philadelphia, but from Nashville, Tenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Splendors at Home | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

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