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...Well, I mean, all kinds of interest-objects. Is that a paperweight on the mantel?" Vag said, as he advanced toward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fried Shoes | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...paperweight?" Gorce echoed, increduously. "I never thought of it as such. I always considered it the meanings of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fried Shoes | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...Time to Love and a Time to Die (Universal-International) is an earnest pussyfooter, a film that timidly asks an important question and then cuts out its own tongue to avoid an answer. Taken from the paperweight novel by Erich Maria Remarque, A Time to Love flirts with a clutch of social issues-man's frequently contradictory loyalties to self, nation and fellow man-without ever coming to grips with any of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...weapon at him in the lobby of Havana's Hotel Lincoln was a tall young man in a leather jacket. "Fangio, you must come with me," he ordered. "I am a member of the 26th of July revolutionary movement." One of Fangio's friends picked up a paperweight and cocked his arm. The pistol moved alertly. "Stay still!" its owner said. "If you move, I'll shoot." Fangio went obediently to a waiting car and was whisked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death on the Malec | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...crib note running on tiny rollers, all concealed in a matchbox equipped with apertures for covert reading. Second prize: an inch-square scrap of onionskin paper bearing complete summaries, in three colors of ink, of three subjects. Third prize: an innocuous-looking chunk of rock crystal, ostensibly a paperweight, actually, when viewed from the proper angle, a powerful magnifier of a series of chemical formulas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spanish Cutlets | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

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