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Fiorello! Director George Abbott keeps this affectionate, musical memoir as lively as the comic strips the Little Flower used to read over the radio. West Side Story. Romeo and Juliet in the asphalt jungle. In this bustling revival, the dances by Director-Choreographer Jerome Robbins and the score by Leonard Bernstein still add up to the fanciest rumble seen around the sidewalks of New York...
...vastly more important piece of cinema that has won several big prizes in Europe, takes a disturbing, 65-minute plunge in the garbage-choked stream of a neurotic consciousness. The script, written in raw, hard-sell poetry ("The slime of loveless love, masturbation by proxy") by Ben (The Asphalt Jungle} Maddow, traces a year in the life and mind of a young divorcee (Barbara Baxley), "living on bourbon, cottage cheese and alimony" in Los Angeles. "Sick of the touch of human skin," she lives alone at first, lolls in beauty shops, dawdles in poker palaces, waits for "a disk...
...outsize posse of featured players (Audie Murphy, Charles Bickford, Lillian Gish, John Saxon, Albert Salmi, June Walker, Joseph Wiseman). It was directed by John Huston, whose Treasure of the Sierra Madre is one of the best westerns ever made, and it was shot from a script by Ben (The Asphalt Jungle) Maddow that seizes a timely and heroic theme, the struggle between human feeling and race prejudice, and develops it in epic rhythms and with epic force...
...plutonium. The processing plant and a nearby research reactor were shut down. The buildings were washed with detergents. The buildings' roofs were resurfaced. The surrounding lawn was dug up, and the sod carted to a deep burial place. The surface was chiseled off of a hundred yards of asphalt road. To anchor any speck of plutonium that might have survived, the buildings were completely repainted...
...morning of the third day out, the fleet dropped anchor in the Bay of Tunis, and Ike and his party buzzed by helicopter to the Tunis suburb of La Marsa, just north of the old Punic ruins of Carthage. There, on a small asphalt lot, 500 yards from the presidential summer and guest palace Dar es Saada ("House of Happiness"), Ike shook hands with Tunisia's stubby, vigorous President Habib Bourguiba. In his warm words of welcome, Bourguiba put in a plug for anticolonialism. "This visit," said he, "will bring high hope and promise to the peoples of Africa...