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...paragraph for mistakes, squeezed into the loops. Hunter's camera is still a touch self-conscious. Too many zoom shots from point of view. Some angles which scream Staged, viz. shooting a collapse from behind a sofa so that suddenly the subject drops from sight. Some over-cute editorializing: Emilie walking beneath a marquee which proclaims "Thoroughly Modern Millie"; Elizabeth walking beneath a traffic sign which reads Playground. Hardly worth getting upset about...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: 3 Sisters | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...have found it briefly in Indian music and mysticism. Since Davies' book went into type John has left his wife and son for the Japanese artist Yoko Ono, and has put his suburban house up for sale. John trims away friends, will lie for hours curled on a sofa staring at the rain. He has gone for three days without speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: Apples for the Beatles | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...always got on well with his father. She added that 'the present King' had been appalled when he succeeded. 'He was devoted to his brother and the whole abdication crisis made him miserable. He sobbed on my shoulder for a whole hour -there, upon that sofa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 20th Century Pepys | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...taste? Some decorators refuse to buy the offending object, though few go as far as Lady Bird Johnson's favorite designer, Washington's Genevieve Hendricks. When she is overruled, she likes to preserve her integrity by pinning a note to the underside of the disputed chair or sofa stating, "I, Genevieve Hendricks, do not approve this piece of furniture." Others are more tolerant. "I like eccentricities-if they are the eccentricities of the owner," says Billy Baldwin. "I approve of permitting the wrong note in a room in order to achieve a personal touch." One of the benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Room for Every Taste | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...dancing-school class. Dark-eyed Lisaveta (Nadja Tiller), an art student whom he visits on a poetry-writing trip to Italy, is far more responsive. But Lisaveta's bohemian ways repel him; when she invites him to a costume ball, he politely refuses and dozes on her sofa while he waits for her to come home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tonio Kroger | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

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