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...staked out his territory"? This seemed strictly for the birds, which left Movie Actor Jack Lemmon, 38, to bring everyone back to earth with a few well-chosen words on Los Angeles architecture: "The fact is, 80 to 90% of it is terrible. It's the ugliest city in the world. It's like sitting in a garbage pail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 19, 1963 | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...Harvard Lampoon should be taken down; it does nothing but scare strangers out of the unnamed square," said Vellucci. "It is the ugliest building I ever did see. It is the ideal spot for a public rest room," he added...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: 'Turn Lampoon Into Rest Room': Vellucci | 2/12/1963 | See Source »

...this discussion of economics, Toynbee blandly ignores Communism's ugliest aspect-its totalitarianism. His implication: a have-not nation is entitled to totalitarian methods to catch up with the haves-an argument that was also used to justify Hitler. Gibbon, pondering the collapse of civilization among the ruins of the Forum, achieved a certain grandeur. Toynbee, among the groceries in the PX, seems little more than irritable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Toynbee in the PX | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...health was poor, and her breasts went dry. Little Sofia-the ph was inserted later because it seems more exotic to the Italian eye-was turned over to a hired wet nurse. From a bed swarming with six grandchildren, the wet nurse last week reminisced: "Sophia was the ugliest child I ever saw in my life. She was so ugly that I am sure no one else would have wanted to give her milk. It was my milk that made Sophia beautiful, and now she doesn't even remember me. I gave milk to hundreds of children, but none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: Much Woman | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

Algiers, once one of the most beautiful of cities, is becoming the ugliest. To the casual eye, there is no change. The square white houses still climb on each other's shoulders up to the wooded heights. In the Moslem quarter, the casbah's tunneled alleys are filled with turbaned men and neat-stepping donkeys burdened with panniers. Beneath the leafy shade of the Forum and along the Rue Michelet in the European district stroll some of the loveliest girls in the world, giggling and gossiping as if they were not a step away from a daily round of slaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: The Not So Secret Army | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

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