Word: bared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proposed costume for Actress Jayne Mansfield playing the Prince of Denmark [June 24]: "black tights, bare bodkin." Bodkin threw me for a loop, so I referred to my faithful dictionary, which states that a bodkin is "an instrument for drawing tape through a hem, a pointed instrument . . . a pin for fastening the hair." Even on Miss Mansfield, I can't imagine anything less interesting than a "bare bodkin...
Wrecking Praises. Four months ago when Mao insisted that the time had come to begin hothouse cultivation of "the hundred flowers" of criticism, the suspicion was that he was looking for noxious weeds to bare their heads to the party scythe. He had to wait awhile; it was weeks after Mao's "rectification" campaign began before China's timid intellectuals found the courage to raise their voices. For his attack on Mao, Editor Chu An Ping was suspended from his party. General Lung's co-workers publicly rebuked him for "slandering the Soviet Union with malice." Critics...
...Mansfield brushed aside objections that she is too, too solidly fleshed for tragedy, announced that she was memorizing Hamlet's soliloquies, would follow the examples of Actresses Siobhan McKenna and Sarah Bernhardt by playing the Prince of Denmark, possibly on television. Proposed costume for Actress Mansfield: black tights, bare bodkin...
Shaking & Healing. Tillich's analysis of the layers of meaning in the chief dogma of Christianity, that of the Resurrection, lays bare the trend of his unorthodox thought. Where the physics-minded 19th century sought to "explain" the Resurrection and the miracles by means of physical phenomena, Tillich looks again to a psychological interpreation. The Resurrection is for Tillich ) both reality and myth-a myth that has always been present in what Jung calls nan's collective unconscious. The resurrection of gods and half-gods is a familiar mythological symbol, says Tillich, and he Jews of Jesus...
...Garment Jungle (Columbia) exposes the bare facts of life in the dress business. As the film begins, a wealthy dress manufacturer (Lee J. Cobb) leaps at a shapely model and rips the frock off her back, seam by seam, until she stands there looking downcast in her uplift. "Look at all these operations!'' he screams at his partner. "If we ran a union shop . . . we'd go broke making this dress." By paying his workers less than the contract minimum, Boss Cobb maintains what garment gamesmen call "The Edge''-a margin of profit that...