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...comes equipped with a better plot, some real outdoor landscape, and a cast that looks even meaner than he does. As before, acting is forbidden; histrionics are kept to a contest of who can give his lip the tightest curl and who can give his eyes the narrowest squint. The competition results in a slit decision between Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef, another Hollywood-to-Italy refugee cast as a rival bounty hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Western Grand Guignol | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

Conformity yields to enormity in Jean Genet. If one can imagine Walter Mitty as a criminal, a pederast and a diabolist, one has taken a quick squint into Genet's imagination. Genet makes the erotically impossible possible. He creates nuns in black lace panties, bare-breasted prostitutes with the flowing tails of ponies. But the whores, pimps, sadists and lesbians who people his plays are also his army of revenge marshaled against the world. The ritual murder of a white woman in The Blacks is a Negro act only insofar as it contains the death wish of the outcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE MODERN THEATER OR, THE WORLD AS A METAPHOR OF DREAD | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

Outfielders squint after flyballs among the maze of overhead girders. The Scoreboard's video screen, all 1,800 electronic sq. ft. of it, is a study in psychological warfare. When an opposing pitcher is lifted, the screen shows a sad little character immersed by the rising water in the shower stall. During rows with the umps, the sign razzes: OH MY, NO! "I'm waiting for a big box filled with cherry bombs, firecrackers-the works," snarls Chicago Cubs Manager Leo Durocher. "It's the answer to all that stuff they pull in the Astrodome. Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Climbing into Orbit | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

PORT AUTHORITY HELIPORT offers a $6.50, four-minute whirlybird's-eye squint. The flight is best taken at night when the fair becomes a fairyland of colored lights and fireworks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: Sep. 25, 1964 | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

PORT AUTHORITY HELIPORT offers a $6.50, four-minute whirlybird's-eye squint. The flight is best taken at night when the fair becomes a fairyland of colored lights and fireworks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: VIEWS | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

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