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...artist as a young rube, has suffered the melancholy fate of Old Hank Bunker. "Old Hank," said Huck, "he . . . fell off the shot-tower, and spread himself out so that he was just a kind of a layer, as you may say; and they slid him edgeways between two barn doors for a coffin, and buried him so, so they say, but I didn't see it." Moviegoers may now see it, thanks to Sam Goldwyn Jr., who spent $1,400,000 making this movie version of the book. The film is distressingly flat, but then those who have...
Barnstorming. In Foyil, Okla., after trying to decide what to do with the half of his barn that had survived a storm, Farmer Burt Quigley slept on the problem, woke up to find the remaining portion had been blown down by a second storm...
...Seven Year Itch, etc., all "b~sed on adultery by intellectuals. Unlike French farce, it is essentially smug. You have to be able to live in Westport. You know all about Freud. You have to be able to af ford the slightly Bohemian reconverted barn in which the artist for The New Yorker, that safe citizen of our times, works...
Unreason Season. The farm problem promised to provide a veto target as big as a barn door. In February the President gave up trying to draft a bill to bring some order into the ever-growing mess of farm subsidies and surpluses, challenged the Democratic Congress to pass a reasonable bill on its own. The Democrats reasoned that it would be better to pass no bill and let Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson harvest some more blame for farm discontent. But word has drifted back from the farm belt that Democrats may well be blamed if they do not pass...
...send a servant around to pick it up a day or two later. Though the prices of such early paintings can now go up into the thousands, Mrs. Gunn had no interest in making a profit. She kept no record of her acquisitions, but instantly consigned them to the barn, where they were soon covered with filth-splattered, torn and fouled by bats and birds. What, then...