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Still, it's fun to watch the mercurial Mercouri play a nympholucrosmaragdomaniac who has similar and excessive reactions to men, money and emeralds. And it's even more fun to watch Ustinov, a semi-Egyptian sphink who asks unseemly riddles ("Wanna buy some feelthy peectures?"), make like a male Mata Hari and look like a two-ton dip of coffee ice cream wearing baggy tweeds. When Ustinov is onscreen, Topkapi is top chop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nympholucrosmaragdomania | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...drug laws really abridge the defendants' religious freedom? Yes, found the court. "Peyotism" goes back to at least 1560; it is the central sacrament of a semi-Christian church whose members (estimated at anywhere from 30,000 to 250,000) believe that peyote puts partakers in direct contact with God. As the court put it: "To forbid the use of peyote is to remove the theological heart of Peyotism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: God & Peyote | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

Ingersoll teamed up with Bob Schrader to take the men's doubles, 6-3, 6-0, 6-2, over Jamie Sutton and John Butterfield. Ingersoll and Schrader had defeated McCall and Constantine Trypanos, 6-1, 6-1, in the semi-finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCall Wins Singles In Tennis Tournament | 8/19/1964 | See Source »

Schrader and Miss Dubitzki will face John Fanham and Miss Wittington in the mixed doubles finals Friday. The former pair downed McCall and his wife, Tita, 6-3, 4-6, 6-0, in the semi-finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCall Wins Singles In Tennis Tournament | 8/19/1964 | See Source »

...eleven years after Dufy's death, the painting has been reassembled and installed in the great semi-elliptical hall of Paris' Museum of Modern Art, where it has become the major attraction of a mediocre institution. Crowds shuffle back and forth, dazzled by the light bouncing off The Fairy Electricity's lacquered surface-for real electricity has not served to light it very well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Resurrected Mural | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

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