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...play's end, a man and a woman-who have seemed to be members of the audience-sedately remove all their clothes and saunter behind the curtain at the rear of the stage. After one performance, the woman came up for a snack in the cafe restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: LONDON STAGE: FOSSILS AND FERMENT | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...course, a lot of exceptions to the consensus exist, but almost every girl who beamed and said, "I've met some fabulous fellows here," admitted that these types were hard to find. As a rule, they don't saunter around Harvard Yard...

Author: By Michael J. Barrett, | Title: Harvard Girls Beef About the Beef And Resist Being Contented Cows | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

They'd know that jaunty saunter 0anywhere. Bob Hope comes onstage with the cocky glide of a golfer who has just knocked off three birdies for a 68 and nailed Arnold Palmer to the clubhouse door. The crooked grin spreads wide, the clear brown eyes stay cool, and the audience roars its welcome; they can hardly wait for Hope to sock it to them. And so he does. Five, six gags a minute. Pertinent, impertinent, leering, perishing. And sometimes plopping, but only for an instant. When he misses, the famous scooped snoot shoots defiantly skyward, the prognathous jaw drops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Comedian as Hero | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

When the two artists arrived at West Berlin's Borsig machine-tool factory to use the company's huge cutting and welding facilities, they were met with scorn. "We start work at 6:45 a.m.," the factory hands pointedly declared, fully expecting them to saunter in each day at noon. But German Sculptress Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff and her husband, Martin Matschinsky, are made of sterner stuff. Up each day at 5 o'clock, they continued working long after everyone else had gone home. Six months later, the commission-a 16-ft. stainless-steel sculpture-was completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Welding Their Way Up | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

Brando's prime Appaloosa stallion obviously means more to him than any team of Hollywood scriptwriters ever imagined. In a role that a lesser actor might easily saunter through, Brando handicaps himself with a fiercely concentrated acting style more suitable for great occasions. He seems determined to play not just a man but a whole concept of humanity, and Saxon's brazen theft of the hoss soon looms as a cause equal in significance to the Magna Carta or the Declaration of Human Rights. Though Saxon ropes Brando, drags him through a stream, and presses his forearm onto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hoss Play | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

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