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...ANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON. A taut English thriller about a demented psychic (Kim Stanley) and her spouse (Richard Attenborough) who carry out a kidnaping suggested by voices from Beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 15, 1965 | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON. A taut English thriller about a demented psychic (Kim Stanley) and her spouse (Richard Attenborough) who carry out a kidnaping suggested by voices from Beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 8, 1965 | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...symbols, they are so obviously symbolic that the conviction of reality drains out of them. Albee puts the burden of feeling on the language. Still, there is more echolalia than eloquence in the speeches. The cast is a marvel; the play could scarcely survive without these players and the taut direction of Alan Schneider. John Gielgud is the paragon of paragons. His thin but resonant voice invariably astounds one by making an orchestra out of a clarinet, and his speech is kingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Tinny Allegory | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...more or less, the empire sex building. She is 6 ft. tall. She is over a yard in circumference at the chest. Her thews are soft, her sinews are taut; her thighs, her eyes - her total form is a monument to the aspirations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: The Electronic Tomato | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

Into a ragged rubber plantation 30 miles northwest of Saigon swarmed 115 helicopters. The craft disgorged 1,100 taut, trigger-happy South Vietnamese troops while another 6,000 men charged in aboard armored personnel carriers to block potential escape routes. Rockets laced the 40-sq.-mi. area, smashing huts and sending greasy black smoke pluming skyward, while a 19-boat force stirred up the Saigon River in watchful patrol. This was "Operation Brushfire"-the long-awaited, widely discussed push against the Viet Cong of Binh Duong province, the men who had probably mortared

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Operation Backfire | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

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