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...That Lady? (Columbia) gives the first sly wink of its camera eye in a Columbia University chemistry lab, where an arcane experiment is in progress: Assistant Professor Tony Curtis is kissing a girl student. An unstable element, his wife, Janet Leigh, enters the lab and explodes. Janet promptly informs the errant Tony that he has defiled their five-year marriage and that she is heading for Reno to be decontaminated. Poor Tony begs his old pal, Dean Martin, a TV writer, to cook up an alibi to placate Janet. Dean's idea: Tony is really an undercover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 14, 1960 | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

...neon night caves along Hollywood's Sunset Strip, the smooth-talking fellows with the gleaming teeth no longer wink and say, "Come up and see my etchings." Last week, as the sun picked up the trine of Jupiter and Uranus, the new line was "Let's compare horoscopes," and many a forthright Virgo walked away enchantedly on the arm of a leering Libra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Hi There, Sagittarius | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...stereo). Florence-born Singer Ranieri offers a selection of Italian pop hits-Volare, Non Dimenticar -giving them the air of tremulous yearning that seems to be part of the Italian climate. The voice is fresh and appealing, the phrasing exact, and the message as obvious as a languorous wink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

With a diplomatic wink the unofficial Foreign Service Journal last week gave its readers in the U.S. Foreign Service some hints on rating their State Department colleagues in Washington's Foggy Bottom. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUREAUCRACY: Status at State | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...September of 1957, Ed Cole casually asked Red Curtice out to take a look at something new at the G.M. Technical Center. With a knowing wink, Cole lifted the canvas protecting the clay mockup. Red Curtice stood back, his blue eyes narrowing. Then he peppered Cole for two hours with questions. There were many obvious problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The New Generation | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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