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Cool Poetry. "Macadam, gun-grey as a tunny's belt/Leaps from Far Rockaway to Golden Gate," is was this America on the move, ironing out its regional peculiarities and aswarm immigrant energy, that artists were now forced consider, and most of them found viewing best when equipped with foreign spectacles. While the newspaper-trained illustrators who became the ashcan school saw ugliness as a police court scene, their friend. Maurice Prendergast, went to Paris, returned to paint Manhattan's Central Park in the pure colors of a soft-hued tapestry...
Into Cam Ranh Bay on South Viet Nam's bulging east coast slipped a grey-hulled U.S. troop transport, its decks aswarm with the "Screaming Eagles" of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division. Sentries on the dock paced impassively, their faces shadowed under their helmet liners, their M-14 rifles riding taut from the slings. As the transport neared the dock, a cry went up from the 3,700 paratroopers: "Take a break! We're here!" The sentries, like veterans anywhere, smiled knowingly...
...croquet on his front lawn under the snout of an anti-aircraft battery. The film is marred by wearisome repetition and by a climactic confused sea battle between miniature U.S. and Japanese fleets. But even toy battleships do not seriously impede the progress of a slick, fast-moving entertainment aswarm with characters who seem quick-witted, courageous, and just enough larger than life to justify another skirmish in the tired old Pacific...
...least 40 Algerians, presumably military advisers to Rebel President Christophe Gbenye's wild-eyed warriors. Sensing a chance to make a few easy points with African leaders. Moscow announced that it would replenish any supplies that had been sent to the rebels. Moreover, Algiers' Boufarik airbase was aswarm with Russian technicians and aviators, many of whom no doubt were flying the Juba run, since Algerian pilots have not yet had time to check out in the Soviet-built...
...plain with a full-scale reproduction of the Roman Forum as it existed circa A.D. 180. Bronston's Rome is patently too fabulous to have been built in a day, but it doesn't look lived-in either. Director Anthony Mann makes it a picture-book setting aswarm with extras behaving like extras and movie stars all dressed up to face posterity in spanking new tunics, togas and armor. Among the luminaries are Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, Christopher Plummer, James Mason and Omar Sharif...