Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first was about President Truman as Man of the Year (TIME, Jan. 3, 1949). In the next two years he wrote eleven more before he went off to London as a correspondent. While abroad, he did much of the reporting for cover stories on Thornton Wilder, Joyce Gary, Claire Bloom and Audrey Hepburn. Since his return in January 1954, Baker has not only written twelve other cover stories but also edited those on King Hussein of Jordan, Actor Rex Harrison, Michigan State's Coach Duffy Daugherty and Singer Maria Callas...
...stage with its own wild flavor intact because of obvious censorship obstacles, "Nighttown" is bound to keep playgoers consulting not only programs but probably interpretive texts carried into the theater by the bushel and read by match-light. Sample of the brothel-born maunderings of Ulysses' protagonist Leopold Bloom: "I wanted then to have now concluded. Nightdress was never. Hence this. But tomorrow is a new day will be. Past was is today. What now is will then tomorrow as now was be past yester ... I stand, so to speak, with an unposted letter bearing the extra regulation...
...hillside where azaleas bloom...
...filled with a red-gold fluid and hanging in a rack, but prove to be vastly bloated ants-the living storage vats of the honey-cask tribe. There is some marvelous stop-motion cinematography. Roots grow like wild white worms before the watcher's eyes. Gourds bulge, flowers bloom, tomatoes blush. Best of all are the scenes of underwater life. The archer fish, with fearful accuracy, spits liquid arrows several feet into the air, and bags a butterfly for dinner. The angler fish, looking like nothing but a clump of seaweed, sprouts a fishing pole from its nose...
...since she won first prize in sculpture at São Paulo's 1951 Bienal, Sculptress Richier, 52, does not see beauty as the world usually views it. Says she: "I am more attracted by the trunk of a dead tree than by an apple tree in full bloom." Along with such dissimilar sculptors as Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti and Brit ain's Henry Moore, Germaine Richier takes her stand as a Pygmalion-in-reverse. Rather than working inert sculptor's materials to the polished, lifelike perfection of idealized beauty, she clings to the magic moment...