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Beautiful music moves him to tears. One evening he cries at a friend's house while a statuesque, oval-faced girl named Olga is singing, and she falls in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hamlet in Bed | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...Olga is only 20 but already an Ibsen-type "New Woman," independent, intelligent, indefatigable. She thinks she can reform Oblomov. He tramps the hills with her, reads poetry to her, and resolves to salvage his wasted life. But Oblomov's only school has been the nursery of self-indulgence, and he cannot bring himself to graduate. He decides, elegantly, that he should have stood in bed. The responsibilities of marriage petrify him. He pleads lack of funds and postpones the date. He develops Victorian scruples about being seen unchaperoned with Olga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hamlet in Bed | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...Francoise, now 30, was Picasso's fourth great love. From 1904 to 1917 he lived with a famous beauty known as "La Belle Fernanda." In 1918 he married Ballerina Olga Koklova (who bore him a son), divorced her in 1937. From 1938 to 1945 his girl was Photographer Dora Maar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fool-the-Eye Realism | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

Carmen Jones (Dorothy Dandridge) is a fold girl in a parachute factory during World War II. She has every man of the military guard wrapped up-every one except Corporal Joe (Harry Belafonte), who loves Cindy Lou (Olga James). But one day Carmen gets in a hair-tearing fight with another working girl, and off to the pokey she goes with Corporal Joe. On the way she lures the corporal beyond the call of duty, and escapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 1, 1954 | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...Sweet Song. In Pasadena, Calif., Mrs. Olga Maltsberger, 50, owner of a cat that responds only to a wolf whistle, reported unhappily that a man appeared at her door when she was whistling at 2 a.m., insisted that the call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

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