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...whole thing reminded me, believe it or not, of the NBC series 30 Rock. Granted, “articulate speechlessness” is about the last thing you would find in this, one of television’s talkiest programs, but what in the realm popular culture is better at innocently taking the mickey out of the Man? Take the “cat anus” sequence in last week’s episode: The archetypal boss Jack Donaghy, crazed with career disappointment, announces that his new professional goal is to make sure that Tina Fey?...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman | Title: What’s Happening? | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...small Aegean island. The story evolves around his attempt to get back in the money by relieving an exiled king Noel Coward) of his million-dollar crown. Revolving ever more tediously, it goes down the drain in a clutter of words-Package is perhaps the year's talkiest talkie Coward: "It's amazing how a girl so dumb that if you say hello she's stuck for an answer can reel off a three-hour lecture on why wild mink is better." Brynner, contemplating a statue of a discus thrower: What sort of a country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 14, 1960 | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...takes a heap o' talkin' to make a national political convention, and the talkiest jobs of all are permanent chairman and keynote speaker. Last week the Democratic National Committee tapped a Southern moderate and a Western Boy Senator for the posts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Talkiest Jobs | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...first movie in four years, and her first in Hollywood since 1941's That Hamilton Woman, Vivien Leigh seems overshadowed by the skilled actors around her. Among her handicaps: a somewhat watered-down characterization, and most of the movie's talkiest passages. The brilliantly lifelike playing of Actor Maiden and Actress Hunter is even better than it was on the stage. As the hulking, animalistic Kowalski, Marlon Brando fills his scenes with a virile power that gives Streetcar its highest voltage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...told, the volumes make a wonderfully cranky, talky, valuable record, as honest as daylight, as native as Congress gaiters and a black string tie. The latest installment is probably the crankiest and talkiest of the lot: a huge collection of clips, quotes, yarns, letters, anecdotes, poor jokes, explanations and refutations. The arrangement is roughly chronological, pointed up with oldtime editorial subheads ("A Doubting Thomas Converted," "Are Dreadnaughts Doomed?"), illustrated with practically a national gallery of photographs and political cartoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Daniels to the Defense | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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