Berton Roueché on a mysterious case of cyanosis—a type of poisoning so rare that, before 1948, only ten previous outbreaks of it had been recorded in medical literature.
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In Part II of her 1952 series, Lillian Ross observes the on-set production of John Huston’s film “The Red Badge of Courage”—and the tensions between great art and big business in Hollywood moviemaking.
Tenzing Norkay has been on more Everest expeditions than any other man, and he probably “deserved,” if anyone did, to reach the top.
In the chopped-up world of television, where old movies now proliferate, the past has become meaninglessly present, Pauline Kael writes.
Jonathan Schell’s 1973 Comment on the Watergate affair and the Nixon Administration's suppression of “actual facts.”
Fiction, from 1983: He looked at Ilka and said, “We’re standing here, side by side, but how do I know what you see?”