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Khrushchev moved on to a more controversial subject, not seeming to mind whose toes his heavy boots trod upon. "Lenin taught that the building of heavy machines, capable of reorganizing agriculture, can be the only material basis of socialism," he said. "This Lenin line was followed under Stalin's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bread & Iron | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

The Country Girl was final proof that she is more than merely beautiful. The well-bred girl from Philadelphia is completely convincing as the slatternly, embittered wife of aging, alcoholic Matinee Idol Bing Crosby. She slouches around with her glowing hair gone dull, her glasses stuck on top of her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Girl in White Gloves | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Everywhere, and especially in Europe, gullibility was nurtured by the fear that no power could stop the Communists, that the only alternatives were an appeasing coexistence or an atomic world war in which the dreadful best outcome would be liberation after U.S. "massive retaliation" against Red aggression. Neither at Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Man of the Year | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

Despite a suggestive title and a penny-dreadful type of introduction, promising a shocking glimpse of marital infidelity, the movie is still much closer to Victor Hugo's original Ruy Blas than to a Mickey Spillane epic. For one thing, the characters are far more interested in the seventeenth century...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: The Queen's Lover | 12/10/1954 | See Source »

"The Sheppard trial suddenly became terrible when they brought Marilyn Sheppard into the courtroom ... It was all done with seven slides in glorious Technicolor and a cocky unsentimental little medical examiner with a Phi Beta Kappa key spinning from his vest chain and a red bow tie, notably unsuitable for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: So Lovely & So Bruised | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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