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...apes. But when Nova is put in the cell opposite with another strapping human male, he finds himself clawing at the bars like an animal. The apes, reassured by this return to "human" behavior, restore Nova to him. "I must now admit," Mérou then relates with a smirk, "that I adapted myself with remarkable ease to the conditions of life in my cage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Monkeys' Pa | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

This is the real stuff. Tracy is in the grand tradition of Grant and Bogart, and that makes Bad Day well worth seeing. Let Roberston smirk his way around the South Pacific; I'll take Bogie or Tracy facing down a gang of toughs any time...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Robertson Is Thud In 'PT 109' | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...body and he gambles to save her soul. On the surface, Milk Train is Flora's story and incontestably Hermione Baddeley's vehicle. She can put the chill of mortality into a sibilant whisper, all vanity into a grandiose Churchillian lisp, all lechery into a creamy smirk. As she coughs, groans and rages about the stage, she is larger than death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: To a Mountaintop | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

...history of a mill-town ragamuffin (Tom Courtenay) who winds up as a Borstal boy. As he reaches reform school, the hero is met by "the Guv'nor" (Michael Redgrave). "You're here to work hard and play hard," his nibs announces with an intolerably self-righteous smirk. "We're here to try and make something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Borstal Boycott | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

Domesticity irks Littlechap, and he has affairs with a Russian lady commissar, a German maid, and an American nightclub singer. There is less sin than smirk to these escapades. Playing the wife and all the other women in Littlechap's life as well, Anna Quayle is a droll dreadnought of a female. In the most waspishly comic number in the show. Ty pise he Deutsche, she sprays the audience with Hitlerian gutturals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Little Chaps' Littlechap | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

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