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Love & Lizards. Augie is a union organizer when, one night, true love knocks on his door in the form of Thea Fenchel, a rich girl with a predatory eye and a penchant for reptiles. Thea is the big thing in .Augie's life; he feels "threaded to her as if through the skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Augie Run? | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

They go to Mexico to hunt lizards with an eagle, a passion of Thea's that Augie scarcely questions. While they train the eagle, love waxes. But the eagle is a craven; when a lizard bites him, he flaps off. Love wanes as Thea takes to collecting snakes and Augie takes to poker. It dies completely after Augie spends a night with Stella, a beautiful tart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Augie Run? | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...formula used in Everything is one way of doubling and tripling the number and variety of songs and dances in a movie without having to worry about whether they fit into the plot. With good enough air-cooling in neighborhood thea ters, it could also triple the summer till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...Theater TV may also become a major movie sideline. Last week 20th Century-Fox was reported nurturing a plan to set up big TV screens in 15 or 20 of its West Coast theaters by year's end. Through closed circuits, Fox would feed topnotch "live" shows to thea ter screens and outbid TV networks and advertisers for high-priced talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: First Casualty | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...fighting men last week won the biggest Allied sports event of World War II. Before 15,000 rain-soaked, freezing fans filling St. Eugene Stadium, Algiers, Americans took 13 out of 16 professional championships in the North African Thea ter of Operations boxing tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Biggest Event | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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