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...your friend. Just hand me the gun, Marty." But Marty isn't about to hand over the gun right away, and meanwhile the man on the ledge has fallen but is now hanging on with one hand. Arthur grabs the earphones back from his son. He hears shallow breathing and a low groan. He is missing something. A fight has broken out in the hockey game and the scoring light is on. How did they score? Arthur rips the precipice plugs out of his ears. The game announcer is talking about stainless blades. Scott now has the revolver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: This Above All, To Thine Own Tube Be True | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

This grotesque tale of a happy marriage has the unsettling effect on a reader of a stop-motion film, in which otherwise familiar flowers bud, blossom and decay in a few shallow breaths of a viewer's time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Short, Painful Life | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...parietal hour report consisted of timid equivocations. One of the few reports worthy of being mimeographed, a study of language instruction at Harvard, was prepared entirely by persons not on the Council. The room rent report was obsolete before it was published, and the Tenth House study was too shallow to be valuable. Fittingly, the Council, at its last meeting, rejected the bulky Executive Committee Report because of vague construction, faulty proposals, insufficiently supported arguments, and narrow scope...

Author: By Joesph M. Russin, | Title: Apathy, Delusions of Power Plague HCUA | 2/25/1964 | See Source »

Director Risi reveals the shallow, lonely aspects of Bruno's life poignantly yet comically. Long separated from his wife, Bruno visits his old home for the first time in three years. He dismisses his beautiful young daughter (Catherine Spaak) with advice to go out with younger guys (she deftly defends her aging fiancee: "Marriages of love often don't succeed. I'll go to Harvard to study and work in his research department.") and winds up in his wife's bedroom. Momentarily awakened to the wasted opportunities of the past and the emptiness of the present, he reaches...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: The Easy Life | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

Best Depth. The rules are remarkably precise. If a shot is placed at too shallow a depth, as Buster Jangle-U. was, it wastes most of its energy on the air. If it is too deep, it lifts a great amount of soil and broken rock, but lets most of the stuff fall back into the crater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Energy: Ploughshare Canals | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

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