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...rely on our traditional horse sense rather than on witless emotions. High politics are high politics. Whether or not any of us accepts or is angered by General de Gaulle's course is completely divorced from our area as U.S. visitors. France will always be France. Its citizenry, in massive majority, will always extend an openhearted welcome to us. Its treasure of cultural and hedonistic glories will always be matchless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Bomb Per Casualty | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...have a dismal evening in store for them. The musical concerns itself with a pair of schoolgirls who spend off-hours spying on a concert-stage idol (Don Ameche). When he is not pounding the keyboard, he dallies with suburban and urban matrons. The music is tuneless, the lyrics witless, and the dances could pass for mass hopscotch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 17, 1967 | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...dismally disenchanting evening in store for them. The musical concerns itself with a pair of schoolgirls who spend off-hours spying on a concert-stage idol (Don Ameche). When he is not pounding the keyboard, he dallies carnally with suburban and urban matrons. The music is tuneless, the lyrics witless, and the dances could pass for mass hopscotch. What less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 10, 1967 | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...lush imagination has ushered forth a superb French rococco doctor's office and an oversize roadster, whose potboiling sound effects drown out many of the lines in the first act. Of course, Mr. Braden is often putting on a show of his own, but in the desolate land of witless farce, the set designer is king...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: Dr.Knock | 7/25/1967 | See Source »

...many egos-including five directors-competing for attention, the picture soon degenerates into an incoherent and vulgar vaudeville. Each actor frantically does his bit and then gets offstage to make room for the jugglers. Niven comes off best because his stylish acting floats far above the script's witless, single-entendre standard: "Beauty is only skin-deep. How about some skin diving?" Allen provides an adroit parody of paranoia, as when he objects to going before a firing squad because he has "a low threshold of death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Keystone Cop-Out | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

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