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...learned to strip the acres of clay-country individuality with the merciless efficiency of a cotton-picking machine. She can also slash through the window boxes and buckthorn hedges and expose the peckernecks who have moved to town and put on pretensions. Her instruments are a brutal irony, a slam-bang humor and a style of writing as balefully direct as a death sentence. The South that simpers, storms and snivels in these pages moves along a sort of up-to-date Tobacco Road, paved right into town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Such Nice People | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...when a man is all tuckered out, some señorita is like as not to come slinking up with a rose in her teeth and a pigsticker in her rebozo. Actor Lancaster (a co-producer of the movie) is the virtuoso in this symphony of slam. He slugs his women and plugs his men with a beatific smile. Actor Cooper, as usual, looks as if he hates to shoot anybody, but it's amazing how often he has to ("He likes people," as Lancaster sums up, "and you can never count on a man like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 10, 1955 | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...Golden Bears for intercollegiate football's nationally televised game-of-the-week, the Sooners warmed up fast. By the end of the first half they had a slim lead (7-6). But their outweighed (by some 15 Ibs. a man) line was out charging its opponents, their slam-bang tackling was setting up California fumbles, their split-second ball-handling was beating the Bear line backers to the punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Oklahoma, O.K.! | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...defeating his old bogey Hogan in a brilliant play-off.- And at the Palm Beach tournament in May, he won with a sizzling 338 for five rounds. Recently, he sent in his entry for the British Open in July-obviously a bid for the professional golfer's "Grand Slam" (P.G.A., Masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Come On, Little Ball! | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

...virus of British understatement. When Marghanita Laski's The Victorian Chaise Longue was published in London six months ago, the Manchester Guadian hailed it as showing "almost ferocious power." Said Time and Tide: "[Miss Laski] stacked every card against herself to make her final really-grand slam more miraculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady Jekyll & Hyde | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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