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Movie audiences remember her best as that bighearted hooker who worked with gusto but Never on Sunday. In Athens these days, Actress Melino Mercouri has been trying her luck in a classic role-as Euripides' Medea, who slays her sons rather than surrender them to her philandering husband. "When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 20, 1976 | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

Died. Norman Reilly Raine, 76, author of short stories and screenplays; of a stroke; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Though he turned out such top movie dramas as The Life of Emile Zola (for which he won a 1937 Oscar), Elizabeth and Essex and A Bell for Adano, Raine was probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 9, 1971 | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

Movies (Wild and Wonderful) are reruns. The networks explain that the holiday audience drops roughly 10%-so why be bighearted at Christmas and run new episodes? More to the point, the pre-Christmas period is a so-called Nielsen "black week," when national ratings are not tabulated.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Nights Before Christmas | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

Yet, for all the powers of the mind, the one overriding trait that makes Rubinstein percolate is rooted in his spirit. He is a hopelessly rosy-eyed, warm-blooded, bighearted, card-carrying romantic. On the Old World side, his pianistic pedigree dates back to some of the great masters and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: The Undeniable Romantic | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

Bighearted as always, the Internal Revenue Service said that some taxpayers would be allowed to pay later, but would be charged 6% interest in the meantime. In Congress, Republican Senators accused the Democratic Administration of having played politics by slashing withholding rates to make the tax cut look bigger, proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxes: Who Has a Dime to Spare? | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

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