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...adage, "He who has a Hungarian for a friend does not need an enemy," may well be a national slander, but it proves true enough in the case of János Rakóssy, the tough, devious hero of this historical novel. The Hungarians were latecomers to Western Europe, drifting in from southern Russia in the 9th century, and they were so often friendless that it is a wonder they lasted at all. Rakóssy is set in one of the worst times of trouble for the Magyars-when Suleyman the Magnificent and his Turkish Janissaries swept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mettlesome Magyar | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

CULDESAC. A comedy of terrors with Donald Pleasence playing a flabby old fool of a husband to Françoise Dorléac's snippy little chippy who lusts for excitement-and finds it when a mobster-on-the-lam (Lionel Slander) staggers into their home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 30, 1966 | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...pressures with a growing firmness. He refused to readmit Savio as a student when Savio broke rules against nonstudents distributing literature on campus. Heyns said that the students' public-address system in front of hallowed Sproul Hall disturbed classes, carried "speech that is often vicious, dishonest, laced with slander and character assassination and often charged with hatred," and proposed moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Sad Scenes at Berkeley | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

Heyns admitted recently he was considering relocating the rallies, and on election day announced that he would limit their length to 40 minutes. "We are intentionally fostering," he said, "a style of speech that is often vicious in intent, dishonest, laced with slander and character assassination, indifferent to evidence and truth, contemptuous of disagreement and often charged with hatred...

Author: By T. JAY Mathews, | Title: Reagan and Berkeley | 11/23/1966 | See Source »

...lost his nerve, as a whipped cur whining, wriggling, licking, leaking, crawling on its belly in pathetic need to please. Dorléac plays the wife as a bitch-kitty who doesn't know she is alive unless she is sinking her claws into some poor hound. Slander, in the funniest and most sinister performance of his long screen career, plays the gangster as an amiable, fair-minded monsler who is only loo happy to kick a dog if a kick is what the dog really wants. Al 58 This magnificent crum-bum comic looks like King Kong after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Razor-Edged Slapstick | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

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