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This time she follows her nose to a country inn called The Gallop, where she slouches about indomitably in tweeds that could stop a bullet. "Murder most foul!" she keeps muttering to herself, and sometimes she adds: "I know my duty!" Occasionally she exceeds it. In a scene that is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rutherford Rides Again | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

Flying Saucers. His fancies led him everywhere. He went to Uganda to study the noble savages and swing their rhinoceros whips. He went to New Mexico, and while listening to the words of a Taos Indian chief, began for the first time to wonder about the morality of the Crusades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dark & Light of Dreams | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

Most of these plays are comedies of horrors, but all of them, in strange and curious ways, beat with a quivering sense of present-day life. The wave of off-Broadway excitement and support for such playwrights as Beckett (Krapp's Last Tape) and Genet (The Balcony) made possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Off-Broadway Reckoning | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

Joseph Heller's Catch-22, the first novel by this 39-year-old escapee from McCall's promotion department, is powerful, clumsy, angry and comical, somewhat in the manner one would expect of a half-grown rhinoceros. The author seems only occasionally and precariously in control of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sustaining Stream | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

In A.D. 248, Emperor Philip lured 45,000 howling Romans to the Colosseum with a show that featured 60 lions, 30 leopards, 10 tigers, a rhinoceros, and 2,000 gladiators resolved to battle to the death. Today in the U.S., the beasts are all in zoos and the only gladiators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vinnie, Vidi, Vici | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

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