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...middle-class mores, skillfully portrays a vacationing businessman who imagines an intrigue between his voluptuous young wife (Fulvia Franco) and a handsome archaeologist-until he gets a bizarre surprise. Manfredi is nearly matched by Monica Vitti, using every tic of her tragicomic trade in The Victim, an offbeat ode to a jealous wife who harangues her husband out of the house. When his best friend (Jean-Pierre Cassel) stops by, she pours out her troubles while he paws out his sympathy. Result: an orgy of absent-minded surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shaking the Bedclothes | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...Europe, Africa and Asia, and to supplye the wantes of all our decayed trades." Bradford's "spirite of God and his grace" were conceits foreign to the minds of these entrepreneurs. In return for their investment they wanted earthly dividends of the sort envisioned by Michael Drayton in his "Ode to the Virginia Voyage...

Author: By Eugene E. Leach, | Title: An Affluent Thankgiving | 11/21/1964 | See Source »

...Guthrie has ever been associated with in the U.S. Except for cutting some lines for pace, he trusts the author and the playgoer, for a change, and the play flashes like an unsheathed sword, keen, virile, inescapably compelling. It is a patriot's poem of valor, a memorial ode written in the bright and acrid air of combat for all men who ever fought, bled and died for their country's honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hit & Miss in Minnesota | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

Three second prizes of $25 each were awarded to Michael Ehrhardt '66, who presented "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot, to Cheng-Teik Goh '65, who recited "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats, and to Andreas W. Teuber '64, who delivered Glouster's speech from Act III of Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prizes Awarded For Speaking Competition | 3/25/1964 | See Source »

...Spanish sequence is an ode to the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whom Frasconi met in Montevideo in 1933, three years before Lorca was gunned down in the Spanish Civil War. In 1962, after a month in Spain, Frasconi made 16 Picasso-like lithographs titled Oda a Lorca, in which the poet is depicted as a matador, Franco as a hairy-legged bull with tin horns, and Spain as a land of graves over which praying figures whirl by on the backs of monsters, symbolizing "mysticism and dogma in a wild, hysterical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wizard of the Woodcut | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

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