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...prosecution, amazed by what the tape showed, asked the judge to take the highly unusual step of showing it to the jury as the trial's first piece of business. There, on tape, was Kidwell, lying on a couch in an undershirt and slacks. As the drug took hold, he was instructed to begin counting backward from 100. When the count faltered, he was guided by questions from Dr. Satten until he was obviously back with his wife in the murder car, apparently reliving what had happened. He and she "were having a lot of fun," he said. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Reliving a Murder | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...Communist neighbors soon began setting up their own. Locals are not allowed, but visiting rubes are welcome, even from other Red countries. "Sometimes a Czech visitor walks away from our tables with a small fortune," says a Rumanian tourist official, "and, of course, sometimes he loses his shirt and undershirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: Red Roulette | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...book, Lord Moran shows Churchill, clad only in a silk undershirt, trying desperately to plug up the drafts in an unheated airplane ("On his hands and knees, he cut a quaint figure with his big, bare, white bottom"). He reveals that Churchill suffered a mild heart attack while on a visit to the U.S. in December of 1941-and that he kept it a secret, even from Churchill himself. Reason: the war was going badly, and "I felt that the effect of announcing that the P.M. had had a heart attack could only be disastrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Inside Winston Churchill | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...looks like an Alabama sheriff--all 300 pounds of him--as he reclines on the divan of the Leverett House Guest Suite, his wrinkled shirt unbuttoned, his huge belly rippling under his undershirt...

Author: By Ellen Lake, | Title: Charles Morgan Jr. | 10/27/1965 | See Source »

...reached when the lovers leave for a holiday in Italy, abandoning the sexually repressed girl to her fantasies. And never has the inch-by-inch descent into total madness been more startlingly recreated on film. Slowly, Polanski assembles the fragments of a nightmare mosaic. A man's undershirt, a razor and a skinned rabbit on a platter become objects of dread. An oppressive silence is broken only by the buzzing of flies, dripping water, a ticking clock. Rooms change shape, the mere flip of a light switch creates fissures in the walls, a phantom ravisher begins to stalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Maiden Berserk | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

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