Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Assassins!" Into a tiny military courtroom shuffled ten hard-core Communists, held for three years without trial on charges of conspiring with the rebels and secretly reconstituting the banned Communist Party. Prominent among them: Journalist Henri Alleg, 39, author of the international bestseller, The Question (TIME, June 9, 1958), a surreptitiously written and smuggled-out account of the tortures that he suffered at the hands of paratroops of General Jacques Massu's 20th Division. Conspicuously missing was an eleventh defendant: Communist Maurice Audin, a mathematics professor in whose home Alleg was captured in 1957. French authorities say he escaped...
...Ornette's surprisingly wide and uneven reputation has been built chiefly on three albums whose titles sug gest the experimental nature of his work: Atlantic's The Shape of Jazz to Come, and Contemporary Records' Tomorrow Is the Question! and Something Else! (jazz lingo for a musician whose work is highly inventive, as compared to one who is merely "taking care of business"). What the Five Spot audiences heard last week was clearly "something else"-music compounded of wildly asymmetrical melodies, lurching and truncated rhythms, tone colors as varied and highly personal as the sound...
...pull out of it, and I've turned down deals for him with that in mind. Mantles don't come along so often that you want to make a mistake of giving up on them too soon." Weiss has a point, but the real question is not so much when or if the Yankees give up on Mantle, but when or if Mantle catches on to himself...
...without a bean in his pocket, picked up his first salary check in Hollywood by hiring out as a stunt man and jumping into a swimming pool in full fig. Since that day, he has splashed about so energetically in the cinema swim that now he is established beyond question as one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters, as a director who ranks with George Stevens (The Diary of Anne Frank), William Wyler (Ben Hur) and Fred Zinneman (A Nun's Story) in the Big Four, and as a witsnapper, fathead-shrinker, Sunset Boulevardier and allround character...
Wilder himself backs away from the question with alarm. Says he: "I want to be truthful, but if I have to choose between truth and entertainment, I will always choose entertainment. I have a vast and terrible desire never to bore...