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The cast is totally honest and utterly skillful. It is difficult to imagine two young actors more sensitively attuned to their roles than Paul Jones as Drake and Jeremy Clyde as Millington. For the rest, Britannia may no longer rule the waves, but it reigns in the playhouses of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Thin Red Line | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

Whatever the amount, the Rockefeller campaign once again is evidence that he is willing to spend whatever it takes to spread his message: "He's done a lot-he'll do more." Both the money and the message show in his highly skillful, frequently shown television ads. One...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Is the Rock Still Solid? | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

In the period of his rapid rise he told a friend of mine in Appleton that he had first glimpsed the secret of political success by reading Mein Kampf. Hitler's technique, he said, rested on the skillful use of the big lie. Tell a whopper and keep on repeating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey on 'The Big Lie' | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

In that small band of skillful men who are the new image makers, the impresarios of television electioneering, two are preeminent. One is Charles Guggenheim, an Oscar-winning documentary-film maker who worked in the campaign of Robert Kennedy. The other is Harry Treleaven, an extraordinary advertising man whose most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Electronic Politics: The Image Game | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

Like Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, McGee is a man of honor and some sentiment who can be gentle or brutal, angry or mellow as the occasion demands. Taylor, an enormously skillful actor, seems to have a special understanding of parts like this, and Suzy Kendall brings to her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Working the Vein | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

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