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In reminiscences published in Russia last year, Abel not only makes light of this lapse but uses it to score a point for his team, joining Spies Kim Philby and Gordon Lonsdale in the international intelligence game of trying to make the rival service look as dim-witted as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Advice to Young Spies | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

In the minor roles, Jane Jackson as Argan's sinister wife and David Richardson, as the hopelessly inept Thomas Diafoirus, stand out. But many of the others don't quite know what to do with their roles. Jan Gough, as Angelique, is like a starry-eyed, dim-witted girl from...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: The Imaginary Invalid | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

- The Outcasts (Monday, 9-10 p.m.). Something new gallops across the TV sagebrush: a pair of racially integrated bounty hunters. In this post-Civil War oater, Don Murray is a penniless former slave owner and Otis Young is a quick-witted former slave. No Uncle Tom, Young can barely stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programs: The New Season (Contd.) | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

Director Laurence Senelick, Harvard's no. 2 expert on Restoration drama, must be credited with giving his group a sound grounding in Restoration style, because during that segment they managed not only to act funnily within the flitty Restoration method, but also to satirize conventions of Restoration theatre and mores...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: The Proposition | 7/30/1968 | See Source »

Neurochemist Georges Ungar based his work on the natural preference of rats and mice for the dark; given a choice between entering a lighted or a dark enclosure, the rat will almost invariably enter the dark one. After constructing a short passageway between a translucent plastic box and a black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biochemistry: Chemical Transfer of Fear | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

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