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Masked Folly. Neither king nor beggar was safe from his brush. "My favorite occupation," he said, "is to make others famous, to uglify them, to enrich their ugliness." He painted a world of fiends and skeletons, of ghoulish clowns and grinning, beak-nosed humans at their most frighteningly ridiculous. He became obsessed by carnival masks, used them, not to disguise mankind, but to highlight its folly. His famous The Entry of Christ into Brussels-with himself as Christ-is Ensor at his most devastating. Here, surrounding Christ, is a seething horde of pomposity-soldiers, millionaires, judges, art critics...
Four-Letter Bird. In Brooklyn, Sam Maiorana, haled into court on a charge of disorderly conduct for the "vile and abusive language" of his 40-year-old parrot, was released for future trial after the bird, called upon for a demonstration, kept its beak shut for two solid hours...
...first glance, the beak-nosed Cologne engineering student seemed too easygoing to be a track champion. He practiced only a couple of hours a week, liked to sack out for a midday nap that lasted until 4, loved to strum his guitar at parties. Watching his relaxed approach to hurdling, West German sportswriters good-naturedly called him "the American from Cologne...
Chaprales, who has owned the University Restaurant for ten years, does most of his fishing in a 30-foot Pacemaker cabin cruiser, but caught the marlin in another boat. A good thing it was, too, because the fish's beak went through the side of the ship's hull. Three men had to sit on the marlin to keep it down...
Whatever its shortcomings, Bird opened with the sweet smell of commercial success in its beak. The advance ticket sale reached $390,000, and the screen rights were sold to M-G-M for a sliding-scale sum that may reach $400,000. A long Broadway run was assured when the seven critics of the Manhattan dailies, seemingly under the sway of collective hypnosis, unanimously hailed the Williams drama. Said the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Enormously exciting." The Times's Brooks Atkinson called it "one of Mr. Williams' finest dramas." The most startling display of devotion came...