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...dance, they spend most of the time slumbering all over the stage like Mexican bookends. As the lusty Mrs. Lopez, however, Marita Reid creates a vivid character. Adding two more very modest virtues to the play are a brief and irrelevant comic bit by Jean Stapleton, as a vulgar waitress, and the rather intriguing perspective of Oliver Smith's oceanside...

Author: By R. E. Oldensurg, | Title: In the Summer House | 12/4/1953 | See Source »

These relics were not meant as a vulgar insult to President Jefferson. They were zoological samplings from Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,* of the U.S. Army, out to explore Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Every U.S. schoolboy has heard of them, but the seven volumes of their journals have long been the private browsing grounds of historical grubbers. Now Pulitzer Prize winner Bernard (Across the Wide Missouri) DeVoto has cut them down to everyman's size, restored the great adventure to the common reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Manifest Destiny | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...burlesques houses were closed as a result of an action by the city's board of censorship on Thursday. At that time, the shows were deemed "obscene" and "vulgar" by Garret H. Byrne, Boston District Attorney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burlies Stripped of Girlies; Old Howard Now Hermitage | 11/14/1953 | See Source »

...that The Blue Hussar's characters take turns holding the stage, so that the story is served up like chunks hacked from a live eel. But the chunks keep squirming, and at the end they have almost grown together again. Author Nimier's hussars are a rough, vulgar, boisterous lot with little in common except being French and in the same outfit. Politically, they are a mixed bag of Communists, Gaullists, Petainists and what not; some of them hate each other more than they hate the enemy. But in spite of their petty feuds and cynicism, most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Conquering French | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...what about meat? Even red meat?" Mouthing his words like a music-hall comic, Churchill spluttered: "I am always very chary with percentages . . . I like short words and vulgar fractions. Well, here is the plain vulgar fact: in the first two years of the Tory government, the British nation has actually eaten 400,000 tons more meat, including red meat, than they did in the last two years of the Socialist administration." And with that, Sir Winston Churchill rinsed out his mouth with, of all things, a glass of cold water. Grimacing like the champion brandy drinker that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: An Ample Feast | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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