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...COUPLE. Art Carney and Wal ter Matthau are riotous roommates in Neil Simon's hilarious study of two men who thought they couldn't live with their wives-until they tried living with each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 4, 1965 | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...Cassidy's terrible anger may set audiences to sniggering a bit, especially after his unbelievably swift rise in the Irish literary world ruled by Lady Gregory (Dame Edith Evans) and Poet W. B. Yeats (Michael Redgrave). On the riotous opening night of The Plough and the Stars, the historic disturbance inside the Abbey Theatre somehow seems less crucial than the playwright's muscular performance in the outer lobby, where Taylor enthusiastically flattens a couple of idlers, rounding out Cassidy's unfinished portrait of the artist as a young tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pugnacious Playwright | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...PUSSYCAT. A raucous contest between the flesh and the spirit has riotous results. Diana Sands and Alan Alda are delightful as a battling prostitute and a book clerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 12, 1965 | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...PUSSYCAT. A raucous contest between the flesh and the spirit has riotous results. Diana Sands and Alan Alda are delightful as a battling prostitute and book clerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 5, 1965 | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...protest that has done some wholesale provoking of its own. Its première in Venice four years ago was interrupted by a hail of stink bombs from the gallery and cries of "This opera makes me sick!" Nono's followers shouted back "Cretins!" "Dirty Fascists!" in a riotous uproar that even for Italy was, as one critic shuddered, "as ugly as I ever want to encounter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Swatches & Splashes | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

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