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...sexual charge and that to become sexually active and skillful is a sure cure for al most anything. It is not going too far to say that a large portion of the U.S. population regards sex. today with the same simple faith that their great-grandparents reserved for snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Sex or Snake Oil? | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Intellectually, Director Anatole Litvak (Snake Pit; Sorry, Wrong Number) has behaved something like a schoolboy on his first visit to Paris. With visions of Camille and René Clair movies and Tropic of Cancer commingling gloriously in his head, he has rushed off down all the side streets in search of life, and has emerged, after interminable researches, triumphant-with an expurgated postcard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

Just what authoress Jane Bowles is groping for in here trellisted summer house, a real Child's Garden of Freud, is difficult to imagine. Her characters are strays from the snake-pit, her dialogue is obscure, and the play is wildly incoherent. With cery strains from a vibra-harp introducing the scenes and occasionally backing the dialogue, the play is something for a Grenwich Village theatrein-the-round. Even in this setting, however, the play might be poorly received, since the obscurity seems hardly worth penetrating and often embarrassingly silly. In the Summer House, in fact, has many inadvertently funy...

Author: By R. E. Oldensurg, | Title: In the Summer House | 12/4/1953 | See Source »

Facsimile of El Dorado. Clark finished his trip with a green-eyed American girl named Inez Pokorny, who was hunting gold and was stranded in Iquitos, too. Their quest almost ended prematurely one night when Clark was bitten by a poisonous snake, a nacanaca, and was only saved because his Indian paddlers went promptly to work with the native treatment: a brew of herbs injected near the wound by repeated jabs of a thorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jungle Thriller | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...hand, there is the polygamous group living under the Towers of Tumurru -on the other are those fading movie queens, practicing a sort of pseudo-polyandry, who shed a husband as easily as a snake does his skin and about as often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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