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...ended the conversation with the traditional "Why don't you call me? I'm at --." I did, told her we would like to do a story on her show. So there I was, sipping champagne out of a paper cup, notebook in hand, camera hanging, feeling like a dumb college...

Author: By A. DOUGLAS Matthews, | Title: Memoirs of A Stage Door Johnny | 12/14/1965 | See Source »

Snoopy, who upstages the rest of the company every time he is onscreen, wins first prize with his doghouse deco rations. Nice Guy Charlie Brown natu rally finishes last- he can't even find a decent Christmas tree. "You've been dumb before, Charlie Brown," snorts Lucy, "but this time you really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Security Is a Good Show | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

What Calvin inveighed against, Terbrugghen painted with brush in cheek. The typical Caravaggioesque huddling of figures unified by a single artificial light source lacks Caravaggio's brooding shadows, instead glows with an incandescent warmth. In the dumb show, hands are more expressive than faces. Terbrugghen was making morality playlets, but his sympathy seems to lie on the side of the sinners and the senses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Merry Mimes | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

After last Saturday, anyone who could maintain that sort of blissful confidence would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Softies Turn Tough; Harvard's Future Dims | 11/2/1965 | See Source »

...idiot before. I decided to be the first." The idiot is Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, played by reformed Stand-Up Comic Don Adams. Smart has little piggy eyes, a voice that sounds like a jigsaw on slate, and a perpetual self-satisfied smirk. When challenged, he is too dumb to panic, bluffs fluently: "Would you believe that I can break eight boards with one karate chop? No? Would you believe three boards? Would you believe a loaf of bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Smart Money | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

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