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...League of Gentlemen (AFM: Kingsley International). Midnight. A manhole cover lifts hesitantly. Not a soul in sight. The cover slides back and out of the hole pops-tickety-snit! an upper-class Englishman in a dinner jacket. Casually, he shoots his cuffs, slides into his Rolls and glides into this British comedy of misdemeanors-one of the brighter bubbles on the having-wonderful-crime wave (Ocean's 11, Big Deal on Madonna Street, Make Mine Mink, Two-Way Stretch} that has recently flooded the movie markets with felonious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Felonious Fun | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...says, "the boys suddenly began screaming and groaning and throwing themselves on the floor." In the schoolyard at lunchtime the swains stood around her three deep, and every afternoon after that there were a dozen bikes stacked along the curb outside her house. The neighbors were soon in a snit about "that little bitch." Norma Jeane was in a daze. "For the first time in my life people paid attention to me," she says. "For the first time I had friends. I prayed that they wouldn't go away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Aristophanes & Back | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...even Helen called a coward. As the part is written, the "pest of Troy" can actually fight like a Trojan, and, as it is played by Jacques Sernas, the "form divine" is so gorgeously muscular that everybody will understand why that prissy old maid, Athena, flew into such a snit about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Meanwhile, back at the Roundtable, Sir Gawain was in a snit. That fresh Viking kid had lit out with Missy Aleta--and after all Gawain had done for the squirt. Well, you know those Vikings, give them a barleycorn and they take a league...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Prince Valiant | 4/20/1954 | See Source »

...Fundamentals of Design" course, which for two-years was a requirement in the school, was the further attempt to familiarize students with materials. By working with colors, metals, and organic media, Design students would begin to understand the builder's problems. He would learn what materials and colors snit certain constructions, and which figures are the best for particular forms of space...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Design --- A School Without Direction | 12/11/1952 | See Source »

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