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...library of the Javitses' Park Avenue place there also hangs a striking, feline oil of Marion by Boris Chaliapin. The mouth is sensual and slightly parted, the eyes tigerish and burning bright. But why, the startled subject asked on seeing the finished portrait, why on earth the golden arrow through her head? "Normally," came Chaliapin's cryptic reply, "when you shoot someone with an arrow, he bleeds. With you, the arrow only changes to gold...
These virtues, in fact, served man well until the 20th century, until the arrow was transformed into a missile and the cudgel into an atomic warhead. All at once man had more aggression than he dared to use and less control than he needed...
...first came from housewives, disillusioned by earlier wash-and-wear claims that fell flat. But as word-of-mouth recommendations spread, sales soared across the country. Says Levi Strauss & Co. President Walter Haas Jr., who is selling products on an allotment basis: "The demand is be yond our capacity." Arrow, Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts have converted the majority of their line. On U.S. campuses, undergraduates who proudly used to wear their chinos wrinkled from the local Laundromat are now coming to class well creased. Says one Midwestern college administrator with satisfaction: "Now they can't look sloppy...
German Theologian Gerhard Ebeling of Tubingen University finds an arrow pointing the way to God in the problem in language. A word, he suggests, is not merely a means of conveying information; it is also a symbol of man's power over nature and of his basic impotence: one man cannot speak except to another, and language itself possesses a power that eludes his mastery of it. God, he proposes, is the source of the mystery hidden in language, or, as he obscurely puts it, "the basic situation of man as word-situation...
Fuller runs a one-men show: he produces, writes, and directs his movies, which include China Gate, Run of the Arrow, Merrill's Marauders, and Un-world USA. As a producer, he usually shoots them in the days, an extremely low budgets. As a writer, he has a flair for sensationalism, and his-plot ideas are lurid and compelling, though his script construction is sloppy and his dialogue implausible. As a director, Fuller can stand with the best. He is, as critic Andrew Sarris called him, "an authentic American primitive." He rarely uses tricky angles, generally putting his camera directly...