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Having drifted into each other's orbit, the two soon experience outside pulls. Isa acquires a morbid interest in the comatose girl, whose tragedy allows awed and then self-righteous absorption. Marie clings far too long to a rich, womanising slickster (Gregoire Colin as Chris) who sees a needfulness he can prise open into a raw gaping masochistic dependence. Reading faces, you might judge Isa the worse off, with chipped-tooth and scar-bifurcated eyebrow, but you realize nervewracking and nervous Marie has borne a more interior brand of wear and tear...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wings of Desire: Zonca Is A Good Guy | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...reader remembered that "TIME once described a TV character from the '70s as 'a human oil slick.' Who was that character?" The Fonz? Vinnie Barbarino? Nope. The slickster was J.R. Ewing of Dallas, as depicted in a 1980 cover story. Another recalled a photograph in TIME of two Peruvian surgeons, Drs. Francisco Grana Reyes and Esteban Rocca. "The content of the story," said the reader, "was about a modern-day brain operation using ancient tools from the Mayans." Did we run that? Yes, indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amy Musher's Mailbag | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

Artist Nichols, whose back-home colors and slickster drawing make him an annual hot favorite in the Christmas-card trade, cried: "When in Heaven's name may we who wish to see advertising take its just place among decent professions see these present low-minded sexologists replaced by high-minded psychologists? As one advertising artist once told me, the usual request is 'Make the breasts larger, the fanny bigger, and show more legs.' Other terms I would have to send by express or in code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Anti-Sexology | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...rebellious talent that made history on Broadway, it reveals, all the same, that the talent still exists. No two plays in one season could superficially have more in common than Odets' Night Music and Elmer Rice's Manhattan idyl, Two on an Island. But where Rice, turned slickster, wears false face and speaks in falsetto, Odets still talks like Odets, can still be ardent, can still make a line ring out like a pistol shot, or a phrase cut like a knife to the bone. There are genuinely vivid and pulsing scenes in Night Music; and at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 4, 1940 | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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