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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lucien has no sooner plunged into politics than he has "a sensation of swimming in mud." His father had forewarned him: "You only direct the dirty work, you never do it yourself. The principle is this: every government, even that of the United States, lies always and about everything; when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Swim in the Mud | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

"A person has to be unnormal to get into this kind of business," concluded Cinemactress Lauren ("The Look") Bacall. "In the first place, you have to be slightly demented to make a fool of yourself in front of ... a whole crew of people who don't care a bit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Notions In Motion | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

In Cocteau's up-to-date mythology, death's handmaiden rides in a Rolls-Royce, flanked by grim motorcyclists, and communicates with Orpheus by shortwave radio. Her immediate superiors in the beyond-a bombed-out no man's land between the living and the dead-are a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Imports | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

If at certain of the year's festive seasons, you find yourself wishing you were a kid again, forget it. You're probably not smart enough. Qualifications for membership in the ranks of the under-12-year-olds, in whose honor the larger emporiums are currently running pandemoniums called toy...

Author: By David P. Lighthill, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 12/16/1950 | See Source »

"Prepare yourself for the worst," warned Rio's O Globo the evening Brazil heard about the new war in Korea. In Santiago, the dollar sagged from 109 to 81 pesos in brisk free-market trading. Crowds gathered quickly to read news bulletins in Mexico City's Bucareli Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lethargic Apprehension? | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

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