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With only a smidgen of a plot to drive them, this unholy trio thrashes out a sometimes funny, sometimes corrosive drama based on Harold Pinter's London and Broadway stage success, The Caretaker. It is still morbidly fascinating to watch. And what made the play important remains perfectly clear: dialogue so richly human that every vile syllable sounds like a cry for help, plus superb acting of their original roles by Pleasence, Shaw and Bates...
...language major at Vassar ('42), Anne Chamberlin speaks French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, plus a smidgen of Arabic retained from a World War II stint with the U.S. Office of War Information in Cairo. She worked seven years for the LIFE Paris bureau before joining TIME in 1958. Since then, her assignments have included covering facets of the U.S. tours of Frol Kozlov, Nikita Khrushchev, Sekou Toure and Charles de Gaulle...
...feared his tepid segregationist background. Negro Congressman William Dawson, 74, suggested as a possible Postmaster General, was never seriously considered as a candidate despite Dawson's announced refusal of the job and Kennedy's public regrets. But as a trial balloon, his consideration presumably won a smidgen of gratitude from some Negroes (who had displayed a conspicuous ingratitude for civil rights advances under President Eisenhower...
...Woodward has made only a smidgen of chlorophyll-a.† It is authentic -but it cannot turn water and CO into sugar when exposed to sunlight. This is hardly surprising. In the green leaves of plants, chlorophyll occurs as thin plates stacked up to form laminated disks. This intricate structure and a lot of accessory chemicals seem to be needed for chlorophyll to do its job. But in his achievement, Harvard's Woodward has almost certainly taken a long stride toward explaining photosynthesis-one of nature's innermost and most important secrets...
...margin Pop regards as "perfick." Spacious, sportive Ma Larkin furnishes a groaning bed and board, fills her voluminous pink nylon nighties like two nudes by Rubens. Wed only in the sight of the common law. Ma and Pop have six children, only one of whom causes them a smidgen of concern...