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...FAIR LADY (Columbia). The sculptor Pygmalion stopped after producing one fair lady, but Columbia Records has no quota. There is a Fair Lady to swing to (by Andre Previn), another to sway to (by Sammy Kaye), one to weep by (Andy Williams), and one to sleep by (Percy Faith). There is also the new movie soundtrack, which has Rex Harrison in fine, fierce fettle. But Soprano Marni Nixon, dubbing in the voice of Eliza for Audrey Hepburn, sings with more finish than fire. Lovers of Broadway's fair lady, Julie Andrews, will insist on the original-cast recording, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 20, 1964 | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...hates, who symbolizes Spain. "There is no deeper hatred than blood hatred, hatred for one's own blood," reflects Pascual. He hates his mother for her blasphemy, sluttishness, ignorance and indifference. She cannot even produce tears at the funeral of her younger son. Unconsciously, Pascual decides she will weep blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood Hatred | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...numbers for white bankers, and black pushers sell dope for white gangsters. Black nationalists preach "buy black," then get drunk on whisky from a white man's store. Black preachers damn Jewish shopkeepers for overcharging black customers, then milk the blacks dry over the collection plate. Black Communists weep over the Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Place Like Home | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...embellishes even the embellishments. Maria Callas (on Angel's earlier version of I Puritani) has no such quicksilver in her voice, but in many poetic passages, exquisitely shaded and phrased, she is the better proof of Bellini's proposition: "The object of opera should be to weep in song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 29, 1964 | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...Southernness. "Lonesomeness" is one explanation. "The lie that is the truth of the self" is another more portentous reflection. Whatever it is, those who feel it most are inclined to go off and hole up with muskrat skinners in the swamp drink a jug of likker and just weep into the warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From an Aeolian Cave | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

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