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...trails after the sailor, she and the stone wall traipse from Greece to Alexandria to dullest Africa, for no other reason, it seems, than to run into an overblown Levantine (Orson Welles) and a flyblown white hunter (Hugh Griffith). In the end the sailor remains unfound. Perhaps, ventures Bannen, this romantic ideal never existed. "But if he didn't," allows Moreau. "we would have had to invent him." Translation: We all need our illusions no matter how false we know they are. After seeing Tony Richardson's most recent flopdoodles-Mademoiselle, The Loved One, and now Sailor-moviegoers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Need for Illusion | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...retirement home to open this spring at Lardy, 27 miles from Paris. When completed, it will house 83 persons who can happily spend their declining years refusing to answer knocks on their doors, or peering down long corridors at other ex-concierges who peer suspiciously back at them. Still unfound: someone willing to be concierge for Lardy's ex-concierges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: But Who Will Be Concierge to the Concierges? | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...stone, a leaf, an unfound door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Few Months Left | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

After months of turning a leaf, a stone, the President's quest took him to Paris last week and what he had hoped was the unfound door. In the cabinet room of the Elysée Palace, he sat silent, his facial muscles taut, red splotches of anger flashing in his face, as Nikita Khrushchev slammed shut the door in his rage. Three hours later, Ike walked from the room. "For the first time since I gave up smoking," he said, "I wanted a cigarette just to give myself something to do." In the privacy of the U.S. embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Few Months Left | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

SPACE Lost & Unfound As a step toward the goal of sending a man into space with a high probability of getting him back alive, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) set out early this year on a new venture: the Discoverer Program, to send satellites into orbit and then try to recover the payload capsules after they had made several trips around the earth. The Discoverer Program's score up to last week: launchings, seven; satellites put into orbit, five; recovery attempts, four; recoveries, none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Lost & Unfound | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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