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...Broadway Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit, turns the battle of the sexes into a surrealistic rout. Among the Venus flytraps, Barbara Harris glistens as the most hilariously voracious sexling since Lolita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 13, 1962 | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...magazine's nudes are reproductions of old masters-Bordone's Venus and Cupid, Manuel's The Judgment of Paris-and remarkably chaste: for the true voyeur, either Playboy (60?) or New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (admission free) houses far fleshier work. Some of Eros' articles are cribbed from history: De Maupassant's Madame Tellier's Brothel, which first wowed Parisians in 1881; poems by the Earl of Rochester (d. 1680), their mild eroticism heavily disguised in battered olde type. Votaries of contemporary vulgarity got their kicks mainly in the titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Enter Eros | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...must express a special word of praise for the marvelous set of Venus'-flytraps executed by Ralph Lee. When they go on their carnivorous rampage, they are positively frightening...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Oh Dad, Poor Dad,' etc. | 3/21/1962 | See Source »

...under way until she took the $1,000 in prize money she won as Metropolitan Opera Auditions finalist and departed in 1959 for Europe. There she got opera engagements in Paris, Brussels and Basel, last summer became the first Negro ever to sing at the Bayreuth Festival -as Venus in Tannhäuser (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Command Performance | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

...London's splendid Lancaster House,* where constitutional conferences compete with a baroque painting of Venus and the Graces, sat three graces from Africa, attired in tribal costumes of lion and monkey skins. Together with 62 other delegates from Kenya and ten British officials, the chiefs were attending what was already billed as "the last-chance" conference. Its aim: to prepare the way for Kenya's independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: Last-Chance Conference | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

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