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...Ball is a misaddressed musical mailbag. Buddy Hackett, a droll fellow of manic and mournful mien, should be readdressed to oldtime burlesque, where his earthy urbanisms could blue the air like cigar smoke. The frenetically agitated dances should be restored to the speeded-up silent film. The nondescript music should be sent back to recompose itself. The book has never left its natural state-pulp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Carnage at Coney | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

...Room a nondescript couple named Hudd have recently moved into a ramshackle single room. Mrs. Hudd gabbles cheerfully about how cosy and secluded it is: "We don't bother anybody . . . We keep ourselves to ourselves." Preferring not to know the identity of her neighbors, she huddles jealously in her stranded little apartment. Her husband stonily pores over a Classics Illustrated while she speaks...

Author: By Eugene E. Leach, | Title: The Dumbwaiter and The Room | 4/28/1964 | See Source »

When the United Airlines jet landed at Washington Airport last week, General Chiang Ching-kuo walked unnoticed past the waiting reception committee of U.S. officials and Chinese diplomats. It was not until moments later that they spotted him, a chunky man in a nondescript business suit, patiently examining the modernistic interior of the Dulles Terminal Building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Formosa: Little Chiang | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

...folowed by a nondescript procession of lefties, all of them as earnest and inept as the starter. Together they were charged with 14 runs, 12 hits, and six walks. Egloff, the beginner in the series, was also the loser...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Crimson Nine Destroys Elis, 14-1; Del Rossi, Diehl, Gilmor Stand Out | 6/13/1963 | See Source »

Seen through the finest optical telescopes, the five nondescript points in the sky looked like ordinary stars. To radio astronomers though, they sounded uncommonly noisy. For some strange reason they were all exceptionally powerful radio transmitters-electronic extroverts among the quiet billions of other stars that keep almost perfect radio silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Twinkle, Twinkle 3C-273 | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

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