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WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Adam's Rib (1949), with Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell and David Wayne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 27, 1965 | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...than anybody in either league. Worse yet, they have, in three months, suffered 29 "disabling" injuries -meaning that each was bad enough to put the injured party on the bench or in a hospital. Centerfielder Willie Davis, who batted .294 and stole 42 bases last year, has a rib separation; Leftfielder Tommy Davis, the National League's batting champion in 1962 and 1963, has already missed eight weeks with a broken ankle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Gentlemen, the Dodgers | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...stand there and shiver with him rather than step out into the crowd and point, and laugh, or look a bit bemused and tut-tut to my neighbor. Because some big gas is building up in Mailer's chest, straining against his rib cage, straining to explode out any orifice into a dazzling fireworks of vision, or prophecy, or whatever those fireworks are that naked writers with gaseous insides hope to release in testament to their genius...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Mailer's Violent Dream: Murder, Sex, Madness | 4/15/1965 | See Source »

...made out of Adam's rib. Literal acceptance of such Biblical statements is the hallmark of fundamentalism, and south Georgia is a stronghold of it. Last week twelve Episcopal bishops from as far away as Montana launched a "Bishops' Crusade for Christ" in south Georgia, attacking "anthropoid religion," as H. L. Mencken used to call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Episcopalians: Giving the Rib a Ribbing | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

...Murray Schisgal, sends three very modern and morose souls through a slapstick, tongue-wagging, satirical inferno of cocktail-party griefs. Under Mike Nichols' brilliantly inventive direction, Actors Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin produce constant and rib-aching hilarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 4, 1964 | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

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