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Big Fish, Little Fish (by Hugh Wheeler), despite a good deal wrong with it, is honest, unhackneyed, ably acted, and quite worth seeing. Center of it is William Baker, a once-promising, now dribbling, minor publishing-house editor who is yet the big fish for a group of skimpy has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Openings on Broadway | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

Make Mine Mink (Rank; Continental). Terry-Thomas is a minor British comedian with a mouth like a disappointed mail slot, gaunt but somehow flaccid cheeks, cavernous eye sockets containing soggy blue objects that look as if they had sat all night in a glass of water, self-energizing mustaches, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Comedies | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

Not since 1727, when records began, had Britain suffered a wetter summer. When it came time for the heavy fall rains, the soggy earth could take no more.As gale after gale swept over nearly every county in England and Wales, the floods seeped out onto 150 main roads, bringing traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Precipitation Unlimited | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

As Morphy's shade wavers through a series of chess triumphs (actual) and a career as a Confederate agent in Paris (imagined), the reader notices a few things about the Keyes technique. There are no purple patches-only grey ones- and there are no onstage sword fights or seductions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Royal Game | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

The Entertainer. Some of the force of Playwright John Osborne's caustic metaphor, England as a seedy music hall in which no-talent frauds held the stage, may be lacking in the film version of his drama, but Sir Laurence Olivier's interpretation of a soggy song-and-dance man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

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