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...deadly years later, Joe finds that he has risen to the top only to hang there, skewered. The poor little rich girl whom he had to marry because she was pregnant is now a bored little rich bitch, played by Jean Simmons with just enough sting to paralyze a mate but not quite enough to kill the pain. "It isn't what you expected, is it?" she says knowingly, then as an idle, needling afterthought: "Have you ever had a colored girl?" Joe answers no to both questions. What he's got is a shaky executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Up in the Depths | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

...year. He even outlawed Rhodesia's bright new independence postal stamp as British postage. If Smith was scared, he wasn't showing it: with rich, like-minded South Africa backing him up, he was counting on shifting Rhodesia's trade to the south, thus easing the sting of the British embargo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhodesia: Some Planes Arrive | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...more fundamental difference between the two men is that John Lindsay is comparatively a self-made man. He was not raised in a family that was grooming a son to be President, nor was he raised in multimillion-dollar opulence by a father filled with angry ambition and the sting of Boston's social rebuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Incitement to Excellence | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...have sought to exorcise death with magic. Or with reason. "When I am, death is not," said Epicurus. "When death is, I am not. Therefore we can never have anything to do with death." The vanquishing of death was Christianity's great enterprise. "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" cried the apostle Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON DEATH AS A CONSTANT COMPANION | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...MOMENT OF TRUTH. Blood, sand and social protest mix liberally in Director Francesco Rosi's angry drama about the rise and fall of a great bullfighter-played with impressive sting by Spanish Matador Miguel Mateo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 29, 1965 | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

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