Word: upping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: After reading, in one issue of TIME, about Calley, Medina, Mrs. John Mitchell and this week's TV programs, let me be the first to nominate myself as Man of the Year, for having the wherewithal to put up with it all.
Dead Anyway. The movie is well served by the shimmering, bleached-out color photography of Conrad Hall. It Is obvious from the opening scenes, however, that this is most deeply Director Polonsky's picture. Author of the remarkable script for Body and Soul ("Everybody dies!"), Polonsky made his directorial...
The machinery of the story is simple. One night, drunk and excited at the sight of blood (from a razor slash on one of their wrists), four young men draw numbers from a hat and seemingly in jest agree to kill themselves in order, without revealing the pact or the...
After a while, the battle-wan reader may feel he has little to gain by following the fortunes of the local satraps up and down the Peloponnesus in this flagrantly detailed novel about Alexander the Great's first 20 years. Not only is the cast large and devious, but...
It has been generations since Gibbon's masterpiece was regarded as definitive. The Greek scholar Richard Person once wittily observed: "Nor does his humanity ever slumber unless when women are ravished or the Christians persecuted." Today's scholars are more likely to complain that Gibbon was weak on...