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This time there is only one person in the culdesac, a newly successful English movie star named Annabel Chris topher. Though neither pretty ("a peaky face and mousey hair") nor clever ("a deep core of stupidity that thrives on the absence of a looking-glass"), she projects well-bred sexiness on the screen. In the hands of Luigi Leopardi, a chimerical Roman director, she becomes "the English Lady-Tiger." The public image is painstakingly built up by the movie company, and inevitably it begins to seep into Annabel's psyche. Her husband Frederick, an intelligent, surly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women's Way With Love And Death: More Than Female Savagery | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Harvard had split its varsity light-weight crew in two for the races. The winning Harvard straight foursome (without cox) consisted of Topher Cutler, Bill Braun, Ken Moler, and Monk Terry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lightweight Oarsmen Defeat Vesper Four | 6/12/1967 | See Source »

...compliment. Still, the appellation was particularly apt for Genoa's business men, a tightfisted, close-knit breed that ranked among the world's most con servative. Interested only in sure things, they earned a lasting distinction by re fusing to stake a local boy named Chris topher Columbus to a daring expedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Stirrings in La Superbo | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN. Chris topher Plummer gives a forceful interpretation of the stormy Conquistador Pizarro in Peru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Mar. 25, 1966 | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

Best of the newcomers is Britain's Chris topher Logue, who brings to the naked charms of his ladylove the sensual splendors of The Song of Solomon. For other issues, Tambi hopes to secure poems from Dame Edith Sitwell and T. S. Eliot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Magazine in Manhattan | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

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