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The curtain falls with Jack, whose avarice is never really very convincing, staring wistfully at the bodies of $100 rats. If he has learned anything much, it is that one good way to kill rats is to feed them gold leaf. (Incidentally, there's lots of gold leaf available in...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: New Theatre Workshop | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

Butterfly Under Glass. First done by the Bolshoi in 1946, Romeo and Juliet seems to Western eyes a curious dramatic anachronism, a bit like a brilliant butterfly under glass. As much emotion-laden pantomime as dance, it retraces virtually every twist and turn of Shakespeare's familiar plot in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bolshoi at the Met | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

"Oh, for God's sake. How am I supposed to do that?" Clipper avoided the staring eyes of fellow passengers and lollers on the shore.

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: The Swan's Song | 4/25/1959 | See Source »

Tail over dashboard, wild as a herd with heel flies, the U.S. television audience is in the midst of the biggest stampede for the wide open spaces since the California gold rush. TV's western boom began four years ago, and every season since then, the hay haters have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

To tell the life story of gentle Mrs. Bridge ("Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it"), he uses a mannered but often effective device of 117 very short chapters, each concerned with a single episode, often a single glancing thought or aspiration. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lonely Mom | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

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