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THAILAND is spawning a new wave of versatile film makers concerned with such local problems as teenage prostitution and guerrilla terror. But they also do occasional excellent non-message films. Actress-Writer-Producer Patra-vadee Sritrairat, 28, a bright and beautiful newcomer, has made a sensitive movie called Games that is the sophisticated story of a triangular bisexual love affair. A splashy sidelight of the industry is movie-poster art. In Bangkok, block-long billboards picturing grotesque snake-entwined monsters hovering over eviscerated women may cost $40,000 and take 36 artists to paint. These gargantuan murals, which used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Asia's Bouncing World of Movies | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...Papadopoulos regime started an extensive campaign in the press against the people of Athens, Thessaloniki and Patra who had participated in the revolt. They had to scare the population once more with threats of an impending communist revolt, they had to consolidate their hold on the armed forces and they had to polish the tarnished "stability...

Author: By Efthimios O. Vidalis, | Title: 'The Tanks Have Turned Their Guns on Your Children' | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...riots were spreading. Thesaloniki, Patra and Prama joined the list of cities with student directed revolts. The American embassy was heavily guarded by police who feared attack by the angry demonstrators...

Author: By Efthimios O. Vidalis, | Title: 'The Tanks Have Turned Their Guns on Your Children' | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

Selby then told his problems to Patra Mae Bounds, who worked at his favorite massage parlor, and she put him in touch with a Negro fortuneteller named Maggie Morgan. Wax-wigged Maggie Morgan got a promise of $1,500 from Selby and a key to his house, arranged for an acquaintance of hers to work in the Selby home as a maid. One day Maggie went to his house to study the layout and plan the murder, found Wilma Selby at home, coolly sat down at the piano to play and sing a hymn, Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: The Imperfect Crime | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

Oldtime Party Leader Lucretiu Patra-scanu was ousted from the Ministry of Justice and jailed, along with his wife, a few months ago. There is no question of baksheesh in his case. His sin is in wanting a Communist Rumania for the Rumanian, rather than the Russian, Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: A Girl Who Hated Cream Puffs | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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