Word: blende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shot largely around the ancient villages of Bracciano and Soana near Rome, the picture's cold, grey, documentary photography powerfully evokes a world of medieval desolation. At the same time, the picture glows with a warm lyricism. In its blend of tenderness and turbulence, Flowers of St. Francis is a film poem that deserves to rank with Rossellini's own Open City and Paisan...
...religious topics raise a serious question for the churches that endorse them. These films offer valuable publicity and good will benefits, but it is quite possible to both popularize something and empty it of meaning at the same time. Hollywood mixtures of the Sacred and the Super-Colossal often blend into a garish circus atmosphere with sacrelegious overtones...
Schenley's new top team, pointing to the company's net of $22 million last year, insists that Rosenstiel will still be the boss, and that no big changes will be made. But Schenley now seems to have a somewhat healthier respect for the lowly blend, and may push its blends harder in the future. Says President Heymsfeld: "You can't sell a man a Cadillac when all he can afford is a Chevrolet...
...more than a quarter of a century Novelist Edna Ferber has specialized in just one kind of book-the bestseller. Whether she writes about the Midwest (So Big), the Northeast (American Beatify), or the Northwest (Come and Get It), the result is the same: a blend of regionalism and superslick storytelling that guarantees the bookseller some of his happiest moments. In all fairness, she gives her faithful reader full money's worth as well. Consistent old pro that she is, Author Ferber has undoubtedly done it again at 65 with Giant, her eleventh novel and her first in seven...
...devoting 20 minutes of the flight to drafting notes for a speech. When he arrived at the auditorium, however, Stevenson discovered that he had forgotten the notes. In five minutes the governor hastily scribbled down his outline, oblivious to the throng of onlookers. The result was a neatly phrased blend of reminiscences of previous trips to Wyoming, praise of the Democratic record on development of natural resources and hammering at what is becoming a major Stevenson (formerly a Taft) theme: Ike is a "me-too" candidate. Said Stevenson: "There is room for such a distinguished hitchhiker on the Democratic platform...