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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY, the better half of two one-acters by British Playwright Peter Shaffer, provokes laughter with characters careening in the dark in a sculptor's studio when the lights blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 18, 1967 | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...doubles. Peter Dodge and Mat Miller vs. Bob Repetto and Marsh McCall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1967 Harvard Summer School Tennis Tournament: Final Matches | 8/15/1967 | See Source »

...Bobo is another movie in which Peter Sellers' comic gifts lose out to Technicolor. A comedian is not an object to be photographed from all angles like a fancy be-ribboned package. That fact escapes Robert Parrish, the director. Since he can't quite make Sellers a thing of beauty, he places him in a whirl of chi-chi clothes and Spanish opulence, occasionally adding a flamenco dancer. In case Sellers still sticks out as a funny man, Parrish drowns him in Exodus sound...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: The Bobo | 8/15/1967 | See Source »

...Street. Under its new owner, Lord Thomson, the stodgy "Grey Lady of Printing House Square" has turned into a stylish swinger. In the seven months since the Thomson team took over, her circulation has jumped to 350,000-a 30% increase. "The British have lost an institution," says Columnist Peter Jenkins of the rival Guardian, "but gained a newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Swinging Lady | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

Privilege. In The War Game, British Director Peter Watkins offered one possible direction for England in "the near future": a civilization getting on by animal instinct following an atomic war. Privilege proposes an equally bleak alternative: a society still outwardly human, groveling in stupor before a cheap messiah. This pseudo savior is a moronic pop singer who combines the sequinned splendor of an Elvis Presley with the sullen magnetism of a Bob Dylan, draining adoring audiences of emotion and common sense with his bathetic keening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pop Messiah | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

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