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...awkwardness in phrasing is well illustrated by the following passage from Song of a Traveller: Spring, which in Philadelphia is wild./Is not in Boston yet. Like a stubborn child/Who will not curtsey to the lady she thinks a witch,/Spring cowers in Boston's doorway to stamp and bitch...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Advocate | 5/11/1961 | See Source »

...theatrical caricatures to display. Gable never in later movies topped his performance as Rhett Butler, the man of iron with a heart of caramel. Vivien Leigh, though she seldom shows the tigerish vitality that Author Mitchell wrote into her Scarlett O'Hara, nevertheless makes a fascinating, green-eyed bitch-kitty. And Hattie McDaniel, as Scarlett's hammy old mammy, just about waddles off with the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Scarlett Fever (1939-1961) | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...those seven nights, Fellini guides the hero, a reporter (Marcello Mastroianni) who stands for Everyman, through successive stages of degradation. First the reporter casually leaves the girl (Yvonne Furneau) who really loves him and goes off with a rich bitch who seems to symbolize ancient Rome itself, the Great Whore of Revelation. Then he tries a popular sex substitute, a pumpkin-breasted, pea-brained Hollywood star (played by Anita Ekberg). On the third night, he covers a fake miracle involving a tree in which the Madonna has supposedly been manifested. When the miracle fails to transpire, the crowd attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Day of the Beast | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...with talented people whose only god is their narrow talent. And he even makes the devil seem a doubtful presence. But only once does he manage to sound like Remain Gary: "An idealist is a son-of-a-bitch who thinks that the earth is not a good enough place for him." THE MAN-EATER OF MALGUDI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Mar. 24, 1961 | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...Millionairess. British Comedian Peter Sellers is superb as the medic in an otherwise heavy-handed remake of Shaw's comedy, with Sophia Loren singularly unfunny as the rich-bitch heroine. Sellers is also on view in Two-Way Stretch, an excellent prison farce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Mar. 10, 1961 | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

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