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It is a little too late to reflect that "a 'person' is a-man-plus-a-woman; with one or the other absent, there is no person." When Gaunt sees his sex-starved fellow men queueing up for the Miss America Doll (including choice of permeating perfumes), it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shall We Join the Ladies? | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

Fortunately, Director Lean's sure technique keeps most of the picture crackling, and the Nicholas Phipps-Stanley Haynes script gives him plenty to work with. His camera angles make a pair of cocoa cups enormously intriguing, endow the villain's silver-knobbed cane with a menacing, meaningful life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 18, 1950 | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

The youthful Gian-Carlo ("a beautiful child until my nose began to grow") first thought of becoming a composer when he was six; he remembers setting "the most erotic verses of D'Annunzio to angelic little tunes." It was a marionette theater, which his mother gave him when he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer on Broadway | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Her colleagues agreed. "A committee of women," said one, "cannot crown a book dealing with erotic subjects."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Current Literature | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

A late 19th-Century period piece, My Romance tells of the great love between a young Manhattan clergyman and a not very moral Italian diva, and of how, putting love before sex, she nobly renounces him. As enacted by two gauche vocalists, this desire of the cloth for the flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Operetta In Manhattan, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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