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...Italy's The Adventure embarrassed some spectators after sensuous Monica Vitti had rolled in unmown hay with her leading man. It left them spellbound when the fellow enjoyed a tart on a hotel divan while Mistress Monica twitched with loneliness in her bed upstairs. Roberto Rossellini and the professional cinema crowd hailed the film as "masterful" and "ten years ahead of its time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES ABROAD: The Winners at Cannes | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

...homes and fields in the recaptured regions east of Rzhev. On their backs they carried children too weak to walk or hold up their heads. A soldier, giving bread to a weeping, toothless, grey-haired woman, asked: "What's wrong, Babushka [Grandmother]?" The fields were tangled with tall, unmown yellow grass; meadows were snarled with burdock and thistle. The few remaining houses were stripped of logs and furniture. German soldiers had taken the wheels off baby buggies and used the prams for easy chairs; they had put their own pictures in Russian picture frames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Babushka & Ballerinas | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

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