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...transformed into a postulant-a snappy little Spanish teen-ager with an Irish face (Carroll Baker) and something of a Bronx accent. The Tempter appears as the usual dashing dragoon (Roger Moore). The Reinhardt visions are reduced to a banal catalogue of wide-screen wonders, filmed in what is apparently intended to be glorious Goyacolor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...Speaking the lines of the invisible fourth tempter in a movie version of his own religious drama, Murder in the Cathedral, is poet-playwright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,WAR IN ASIA,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,PEOPLE,OTHER EVENTS: The President & Congress | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

London will get to see the film next month, the U.S. whenever Hoellering completes distribution plans. Moviegoers should have a special interest in the lines of the invisible and diabolical Fourth Tempter, who urges Thomas à Becket to court martyrdom and the eventual reward of sainthood. The Fourth Tempter: T. S. Eliot himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Becket on the Screen | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

This week found radio wrestling rather self-consciously with its soul. The tempter was that familiar old devil, John Barleycorn, represented by Schenley Industries, Inc. Schenley had quietly asked if the networks would now be willing to sell time on the air for whisky advertisements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Amber Light | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...Hentig contends that certain characteristics of law-abiding citizens arouse a counterreaction in the criminal. The inexperienced businessman, for example, invites embezzlement; the nagging wife is flirting with murder; the alcoholic is a natural for robbery. Thus the victim becomes the "tempter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Go Ahead, Hit Me | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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