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...true visual flair, nothing beats rhythm-and-blues. Snazzy-stepping, soul-singing performers like James Brown and Wilson Pickett sock it to the faithful with a furious abandon that shakes the halls on college campuses and urban temples like Harlem's Apollo Theater or Chicago's Regal. Of all the R-and-B cats, nobody steams up the place like Sam & Dave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soul: Joyful Noisemakers | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...just in front of the royal palace. Orson Welles is appropriately resonant as the blind Tiresias-though he appears so massive that it is hard to imagine his having been turned into a woman, as the legend has it. Lilli Palmer's Jocasta manages to be at once regal, sexy and maternal in this famous Freudian archetype of mother love gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Arrogance in Athens | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...Miss Alexandria" is, quite naturally, the last of the Morleys, a family that has more or less owned Unionville for generations. With her "thin, regal nose" and her whim of iron, she is a durable devotee of doing things right. "I was brought up to be polite," she says complacently, "even if it killed you." Living in a world of Satsuma bowls and family portraits, she nonetheless bravely jousts with the local mineowners, predictably besting them all. Through a shrewd financial maneuver, she forces them to pay their delinquent school taxes. Conveniently deaf, socially deft and totally domineering, she admits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Main Street Mame | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...meantime, President Svoboda had flown to Moscow for face-to-face negotiations with the Soviet leaders. Though they gave him a regal reception in public, the Soviets subjected him in private to vitriolic abuse. "It was ten times worse than Cierna," a member of the Czechoslovak delegation said later. With Brezhnev leading the attack, the Russians ordered Svoboda to set up an anti-Dubček puppet regime. They insisted on the right to name the members of the Presidium. If he did not comply, they warned, Czechoslovakia would be submitted to punishments that would make the rape of Hungary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: BACK INTO THE DARKNESS | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...Knights of Malta have not been allowed to return to the island whose name they bear. Last week Malta welcomed back its knights, who are members of the Roman Catholic Church's oldest chivalric order. To the crash of a 21-gun salute, a delegation of knights in regal red and black uniforms and feather-plumed helmets, led by Grand Master Fra Angelo de Mojana di Cologna, a Milanese nobleman, landed at the Maltese capital of Valletta -named for the commander who terrified besieging Moslems in 1565 by using the heads of decapitated Moslem prisoners as cannonballs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malta: Knightly Return | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

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