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...effective device, he fused author and hero into one character, and let both proclaim: "To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, and never to stop dreaming or fighting-this is man's privilege and the only life worth living." Viewers and critics inclined to snicker at such idealism missed the point of a fine TV drama whose central theme was man's eternal search for truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Victory by Ridicule | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...season, H.R.H. the Grand Duchess Gloriana XII of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick graciously declares that a state of war exists between Grand Fenwick and the United States of America. When the declaration is delivered to the U.S. Department of State, the only reaction it gets is a tired snicker from a bored bureaucrat: "Those guys in the pressroom. All the time making jokes." After all, Grand Fenwick is the smallest independent country in the world, a few square miles left over from the Middle

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...describes a lavish dinner at the mansion of Trimalchio, wealthy and flatulent onetime slave. He presents each outrageous new dish-a roast sow. for instance, with a bellyful of live thrushes-displaying all the joy of a labor racketeer showing off the power ashtrays on his Cadillac. The guests snicker at Trimalchio's ostentation-but their faces are smeared from the food they have choked down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gutter Odyssey | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...around and staggers back to the farm to take care of Susan's seven-year-old son (Dennis Holmes). But the boy, who thinks that Boyd has killed his mother, tries to take care of him first. He lures the man to a convenient quagmire, all set to snicker as he sinks, but Actor Boyd keeps his chin up. Meanwhile, back at the village, Susan is realizing how wrong she has been about her husband. All those horrible things he did to her were not really horrible at all, the script says, because the poor fellow had an unhappy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...Aroused by the brave little woman's battle with the corporate dragon, millions of televiewers produce a deluge of dimes for a fight-the-villain fund. With Odyssean shrewdness, Kovacs pretends to yield. He makes the heroine a present of the train. Unfortunately, he announces with an evil snicker, that leaves him without a train to serve the town. The horrified townspeople turn against the heroine. Has the villain triumphed? As far as the spectator is concerned, there was never any contest. Who could prefer a conventionally pretty Hollywood Belinda to the most hilarious Rassendale who ever slept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

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