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...blonde Dutch-boy bob, Bette looks like a degenerate Hans Brinker, and she plays a wealthy old skate who lays out plenty of silver to keep Son Horst from nipping off. She offers him an Austin-Healey, a luxuriantly upholstered housemaid ("or find a nice married woman in your own world"), and cold cash. Horst uses the money to set himself up as a bohemian artist in Rome, but he can't fill his life or his canvas because "there is nothing worth painting." Ultimately, he finds redemption through fleshly enslavement to Catherine, an amoral part-time model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Existential Momism | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

Born. To Steven Clark Rockefeller, 27, divinity student son of New York's Governor; and Anne-Marie Rasmussen Rockefeller, 25, Norwegian-born former housemaid in the Rockefeller home: their second child, first daughter; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 23, 1963 | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

Revolution of Expectations. In Italy, where just after the war a cook could be had for $3 a month and a housemaid for $2.50, servants are scarce at $70 a month in Rome and $100 in the more prosperous northern cities such as Milan and Genoa. And a law passed in 1958 forces the employer to pay fringe benefits and bonuses that double the basic wage. Even at that, housewives are combing the desperately poor regions of Sicily and Sardinia for the underprivileged, down to eight-year-old orphans who cook while standing on kitchen stools. Classified ads plead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: The Cat in the Icebox | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...whom Shakespeare prophetically wrote: Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Burton's voice and Welsh background also made him a natural for the documentary, A Tribute to Dylan Thomas, winner of a Hollywood Oscar a fortnight ago. *A housemaid's journal in Britain, now defunct. -Rex is suing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Man on the Billboard | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

Tovarich explores new frontiers of boredom in an unmusical noncomedy. As a White Russian grand duchess posing as a housemaid in Paris in 1927, lovely Vivien Leigh does a Charleston to remember, and otherwise lights up the proceedings like a matchflare in a catacomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 19, 1963 | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

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