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The incident sets a standard that the rest of this bedpan farce from Britain rarely tries to rise above. The picture begins with a pubic shave, continues with a ceremony involving a suppository, settles down to some steady vomiting, wakes up with a scene full of toilet-paper streamers.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 26, 1960 | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

All kinds of sounds are being recast in the stereo mold, but the stereo fan has learned that he can best demonstrate the pingpong effects with the plink and thump of percussion instruments, and stereo records with "percussion" in the title have a Presley-like pull. Command Records, a stereo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sound in the Round | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

These life histories are soundly written and the people they describe are interesting enough. But the book's structure is dissatisfying: the flashbacks bring John and Herta back to the present time and then simply drop them there on the last page-still sitting in grim, unhappy silence. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fat & Lean | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

The rest of the characters wheeled out in Author Auchincloss' filigreed tale of a family fortune are only slightly more alive than Josiah. A lawyer by profession, Auchincloss probes with exasperating precision through the backgrounds and bankbooks of the five-generation descendants of one Julius Millinder. a tough-minded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bankbooks & Backgrounds | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

George Bolton and Ed O'Callahan as Cerebro and Soma make believably solid citizens, and they can say absurd things without blinking an eyelash, which is what the play requires. Fred Morehouse and Endo seemed overly conscious of himself as an actor last night, where the apparent consciousness of the...

Author: By James A. Sharaf, | Title: The Hole | 7/5/1960 | See Source »

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