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Motorcycles still account for 80% of the company's sales, and their throaty purr is the sound the Shacho-san loves best. "Driving a car," says Honda, straddling one of his new motor bikes, "is like sitting in a living room. Driving a motorcycle is like controlling something almost alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Honda's New Wheels | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).*"The Purr-fect Crime," with Julie Newmar as the furtive Catwoman, was partly pre-empted during its broadcast earlier this season by the aborted Gemini 8 space flight. Repeated intact for fans who have cats, as well as bats, in their belfries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 13, 1966 | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

Wednesday, March 16 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Julie Newmar, who played a robot last season on "My Living Doll," unbends for a supple guest appearance as the Catwoman in "The Purr-fect Crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Mar. 18, 1966 | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...Uncle Sam's treatment of the Indian. But protest is not her only pitch, and she has other things on her mind that any non-Indian can share. What fires her songs with feeling is the peculiarly husky timbre and flexibility of her voice. She can purr, she can belt, she can shade her voice with an eerie tremble that crawls up the listener's spine. Unlike the pure, mountain-spring soprano of Joan Baez and her disciples. Buffy's lowdown treatment is aged in brine, her repertory more varied. In Until It's Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singers: Solitary Indian | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

Purebred Siamese. Capucine's secret is that she carries over to the screen the grand hauteur she learned as a haute couture model, then plays her glacial poise for laughs. Not even the antics of Peter O'Toole and Woody Allen could persuade the Pussycat to purr, but fanciers, fatigued with Ursula Andress as an alley cat and Romy Schneider as a kitten, applauded Capucine's purebred Siamese and gave her a bigger share of laughs in a Sellers market. In Panther, she kept a straight face while she slammed the door on the nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Hottest Icicle | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

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