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...pair of women soon make a man out of Charlie. Ida, the bank manager's daughter, first seduces him. Delphine, the femme fatale waitress at the Rainbow Café, continues Charlie's education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hark, Hark, the Clerk | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...this point, Charlie, Come Home is another worm-turns farce, starring Peter Sellers. But as the-tunnel lengthens from the cellar of the Rainbow to the vault of the bank, Delderfield's story takes on a certain serpentine depth. Charlie becomes disenchanted with Delphine and indifferent even to the pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow. Yet he perseveres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hark, Hark, the Clerk | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...their more gifted epigones. And yet, as one can plainly see from the 140-odd paintings, drawings, prints and reliefs that make up the exhilarating Delaunay retrospective organized by French Art Historian Michel Hoog at the Orangerie in Paris this summer, the man belonged to no movement. His rainbow-hued paintings shared very little with cubism. "But they're painting with cobwebs!" was his reaction to the sober, niggling brown-and-gray facets of the first cubist pictures he saw. The tenor of Delaunay's imagination was different: coarser, more exuberant. In a crucial sense, it was more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Delaunay's Flying Discs | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...foreign country," reported at week's end: "The city is full of families and people having fun. I'd just love to stay for a whole month." Texas Delegate Glen Maxey, 24, and a friend, about to be turned away from the posh, 65th-floor Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center because they were coatless and tieless, reminded the headwaiter that "your mayor told us we could go anywhere we wanted." The headwaiter smiled and, wonder of wonders, escorted them to a window table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: New York: Best Foot Forward | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...oven, but her aunt pulled her out. Since then she has drunk a can of Drano, slashed her wrists, taken an overdose of Valium and driven her Volvo into the Pacific. Finally, at 27, she has written a "choreopoem" titled For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf (TIME, June 14). She felt it would be criticized as "too emotional, too colored and too female." Instead, it is the sleeper hit of the off-Broadway season and will probably move to Broadway in the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Trying to Be Nice | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

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