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...second about is more satisfying, with pies be-purpling the chemises of both Miss Markof-Belaeff and Mr. Holmes. However, round three takes the cake (so to speak), when both participants approach within a foot of each other and boldly smush a pie in the other's face. Guu--shh...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: The Dawn Duel: Blueberries At Ten Paces | 5/11/1979 | See Source »

...symphony. "I expect you to be as young as he is." A few measures later she is talking about one of the chorus' celebrated pianissimos. "Sopranos, listen to the tenors and just place the sparkling star gently above their sound. It should have a misterioso quality, just whisper. Shh, shh." Balancing a chorus of 170 is a tricky business, no less so when it turns to popular music. "This song has got to bounce, it's got to bubble!" she burst out last week during a rehearsal of The Night They Invented Champagne, from Gigi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tower of Sound | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...ahead with its press preview for Carmen, starring Pola Negri and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. "The champagne was chilled to perfection," Miss Negri recalled. "We sat down and the film began. I heard a faint sound in the distance . . . gunfire." Had he heard it too? Miss Negri asked Lubitsch. "Shh," said Lubitsch. "There's nothing anybody can do. Watch the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Berlin Diary | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Golden Theater next month, they molt easily from character to character, life to literature, now enacting a missile scientist talking on the telephone with his mother, now dropping a bit of dialogue between two Saganesque lovers ("This has been the cheapest, tawdriest affair of my life." "Shh, you'll spoil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ROAD: Two Characters in Search . . . | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

...course. Here. Here--shh. I want to hear...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Social Schism: Brown Spring Weekend | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

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