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Adolescence presents Annie Sinigalia as a girl who kisses all the boys and afterward, wonderingly and reminiscently, practices on her mirror. Virginity finds a nice young boy and girl immobilized with modesty as they try to make love for the first time. "Tomorrow morning, maybe?" she asks shyly at the fade. "It's a shame to waste the room." Marriage (written and directed by René Clair) is a pert disquisition on honeymoon hysterics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Seven Ages of Woman | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

...mostly white, the other mostly black. Each will elect 15 members of the legislature. The remaining 15 will be elected by both rolls under a percentage system that will ensure both the black and white voting blocs the power to veto any candidate. Though London's Daily Mirror called it "too clever by half," the plan's intent was clear: to give swing power to moderates of both races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Rhodesia: Balancing Act | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

Peintre cracked like a dropped mirror, implicating a burly, broken-nosed ex-Foreign Legionnaire as his fellow assassin. They had killed Popie, said Peintre, for $400 each, which had been given them by Paul Agay, 32, an executive of a soap company, who had told them: "That bastard has to be eliminated before he talks." Hauled in by the police, Agay would admit only that he had "received orders from Paris from someone I knew only by his Christian name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: The Rivals | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

Rude Blow. Word of the impending Odhams-Thomson deal came as a rude blow to Cecil Harmsworth King, 60, head of the Daily Mirror group, a gigantic newspaper-magazine combine (total circulation: more than 16 million) that includes two of Britain's leading popular papers: the sex-salted Daily Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial, one of three newspapers that the watchdog Press Council last year called "a disgrace to British journalism." The other two: the People and News of the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: How Big Is Too Big? | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

Hauser's plans are set back when Aelia refuses to seduce his thesis advisor. Her explanation: "'But Cas, darling,' she purred, appraising her luxuriant body in the curved mirror she had installed to surround her bed, 'I thought you knew. I mean, I wouldn't sleep with... with...a m-a-n.' She oozed the word through tightly clenched teeth, as if to bite the life out of it." Needless to say, Aelia seduces the professor's wife and Cas seduces the professor, and before long Cas has tenure...

Author: By Allan Katz, | Title: The Section Man | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

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