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...spots that are joined together and ultimately form the object over which the eye wanders without obstruction." Bonnard's spectral tapestries are a surface abstraction that invite the eye to play tourist. His imagery is so pleasing that few see the tricks of color and form that wrench the paintings away from realism into perceptual dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: The Distant Witness | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

Grasping the Opportunity. Through the week Humphrey carried the burden of infighting and partisanship to which he had been assigned. In Chicago, he accepted an enormous, imitation monkey wrench from the Plumbers Union, promised that he would use it "to put the screws on the Republicans." During a three-city swing through Indiana, he derided Barry Goldwater's view of freedom as "the freedom to remain un educated or ignorant, the freedom to be sick, the freedom to stay unemployed, the freedom to be hungry. Some philosophy! Some freedom!" Reacting to G.O.P. charges that his longtime association with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: On the Short End | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...decide which way to blow. Produced and directed by its star, Laurence Harvey, this film about a killer's escape from prison in Tangiers deplores the death penalty, sadistic bureaucrats, and nine out of ten cops. It adores condemned criminals and closeups. But whenever the camera can wrench itself away from Harvey's grab-bag morality and his own vulpine profile, the supporting actors prove their worth. As Harvey's brother, Robert Walker gives the kind of performance that starts fan clubs springing up, and Girl Friend Sarah Miles, an ignis fatuus personified, fills her slattern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: One Man's Homily | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

Maggie claims that she is not out to monkey-wrench any other candidate. "I am going to run my own campaign on my own record," says she. "I am running against no one. I'd like to be President. I think my experience and my record are greater than any other candidate or any other of the unannounced candidates. It's a real chal lenge, and that's one of the paramount things. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Madam Candidate | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan. 23--President Sukarno of Indonesia has thrown a monkey wrench into mediation machinery built up by U. S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy for a settlement of the Malaysian crisis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sukarno Vows Destruction of Malaysia | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

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