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Guns of Darkness. Something of a sleeper: a routine south-of-the-border bit that develops into a philosophical thriller of remarkable moral insight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Sep. 14, 1962 | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

Much of Pins and Needles, however, is as timeless as good show music can be, and at its best Rome's 25-year-old sleeper is a match for any show album on the market. Certainly no album of the current season more tunelessly defines the Wallflower's Lament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 25-Year Sleeper | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

Song-sparrows were wound up for the summer, and in the maple the complementary cardinal cracked a whip, and the sleeper awoke, stretching miles of green limbs from the south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry in English: 1945-62 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

HOMICIDAL. The sleeper of 1961: a cheap ($250,000) chiller that turned out to be the most frightening film since Psycho-and what's more, nobody so far has guessed whodunit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: THE BEST PICTURES OF 1961 | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...nation's top singles, evolved partly from a South African chant, it warns in its insistent, dronelike way of a lion lurking near the village-but "Hush, my darling / Don't fear, my darling / The lion sleeps tonight." What Variety calls, with more truth than poetry, "a sleeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

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